I was going to humblebrag about all the flaws with these images, but you know what? I'm just going to enjoy the heck out of them, and hope you do the same. Due to a back injury I've been pretty inactive, and had a LONG day yesterday at Ski Patrol, mostly fun except for that 90 minutes where we had 8 incidents, some pretty serious. Came home utterly spent. Wasn't going to bother photographing the eclipse, and then caught several texts and FB posts from friends anticipating my images. Can't disappoint my public!

I started getting the gear together and realized that, unlike DSO work, the eclipse was going to be MUCH less complicated. "Simple" would be my watchword:

• Dark site? Why? Let's set up in the back yard! Simple!
• Guiding? Naah.
• Polar alignment -- waste of time!
• Computer to control everything? Silly.

The only reason I bothered setting up the equatorial mount at all was laziness, I wanted the whole rig to run unattended so I could nap in warm comfort inside. Heh -- joke was on me, I'd neglected to specify "Lunar" tracking rate on the mount and the little orb just scooted right out of frame in an hour! (Huh. Guess I'd better hook it up RIGHT NOW or I'll forget to change it back...)

And for such a drastically simplified setup, I had to laugh at how many things went wrong. As nearly as I could tell, the mirror basically froze on my K-5 at one point (the low last night was -25℃), it made a REALLY weird noise and the image was black. And the mount decided that a meridian flip just as the center of totality approached would be the very thing; since I hadn't bothered to align it ("Simple!"), I had to completely repoint it without a finder scope ("Simple!"), which turns out to be a LOT HARDER when the moon is so dim and you can't cheat by the loom of its light when you get close! Oh, and the bad back, hunched over in the snow at odd angles with my reading glasses fogging up.

Nevertheless, we persisted. These are all at prime focus with my Stellarvue SV70t (no FF/R), so 420mm, f/6, daylight white balance.

22:51 CST. The umbra cometh! 1/640th of a second.


00:00:42 CST. Totality, but a gradient still visible. 10 seconds.


00:22:23 CST. Deeper in totality, with interesting color. 10 seconds.


01:21:25 CST. The umbra goeth! 1 second.


I showed you mine, Pentaxians, let's see yours!

Mine will be coming later tonight or tomorrow. Nice seeing someone has posted theirs already.

I had to sleep..... :-(

Posted one in K1 pictures last night. KP rear display refused to work in -7C with who knows what wind-chill so had to revert to the K1 that performed flawlessly.

That is unfortunate. My K-3 chugged right along without issue in the -22C I was out in last night. No real wind so it was a rather pleasant Minnesota winter night. Unfortunately there were some light upper level clouds all night but they were still thin enough to get something.

I need a sturdier tripod, went out to the west coast of Jutland, Denmark, at the North Sea (next stop UK), I had clear skies, but it was quite windy resulting in shaky pictures.
KISS, K-70, DA*300mm.

It was a cloudy night in Arizona

We were really lucky in the weather, other than the temperature. My friend in Arizona managed to get a shot, but it was through thin cloud and pretty blurry. Re sleep: Man, I hear you! If I couldn't have shot from my back yard I wouldn't have done it. Even the front yard would have interfered with the vital napping regimen, I'd have been too concerned about theft.

What sort of exposure were you using? At 300mm even a short one would be affected by shake in high wind, of course.

1/5s, another thing working against me - I kept the lens hood on, the DA*300mm lens hood is humongous.

A non-event in Australia this time but I'm pleased it went well for you. Thanks for sharing your pics - they brought astronomical pleasure Downunder

Shot with the K1 and Orion Eon 120 ED, slight crop.
I was pretty bummed out about the KP, rest of the camera was fine, just the rear display. Good to hear that the K3 worked good.

I was up on a hill in L.A. and we had clouds for the 1st part, so I wasn't able to get a shot of Moon rise with downtown L.A. as the foreground like I hoped to, but it cleared up for the best part.

Shot with the K-1 and DFA* 150-450


Moon rise such as it was.


Moon over DTLA


Entering the shadow


Going


Going....


Totality.

K-1 and DFA 150-450 at 450.

A couple of different eclipse shots. First the supermoon seen through scudding low clouds, and second an environmental near totality nightscape. Two camera setup: K3 + 55-300 PLM + HD 1.4 TC on Astrotrac TT320X-AG in "moon tracking mode"; and K-1 with Tak 28/3.5. PLM at f/11, Tak at f/8. - Jack