A total solar eclipse visible across North America
Solar Eclipse of April 2024
The total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, was visible across a band covering parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada and crossing the contiguous United States.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the Sun. The Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight. Totality occurs only in a limited path across Earth’s surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a larger surrounding region.
The moon’s apparent diameter was 5.5% larger than average. With a magnitude of 1.0566, the eclipse’s longest duration of totality was 4 minutes and 28.13 seconds just 4 mi (6 km) north of the Mexican town of Nazas, Durango.
Nikon D750 at 300 mm on Star Adventurer GTi
Arkansas, United States
To post-process some of the images, I applied these techniques using Photoshop. In a nutshell:
- Align the images
- Auto-stack with some adjustments in Camera Raw
- Pellet method to highlight the solar prominences and corona
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