Spectacular!
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Really nice shot! I love seeing the corona coming around the sides. We had about 83% coverage here (Jackson, Mississippi), but it was still a really cool experience.
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I didn’t know if it would be possible to catch any stars with a long, slow lens shooting at ISO100 and at about 750mm - but yup, it is. Here’s Regulus, of the Leo Constellation, in the bottom left of this frame.
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I’m so glad you pros (and amateurs masquerading as pros) got some decent shots of the totality.
Was worth the trip then? 
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Breathtaking!
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And I just realized that what I thought were dead pixels in my camera are probably just stars 
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The guys from Smarter Every Day were in Wyoming and also managed to capture the ISS transit:
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More than likely! You can shoot a black frame with the lens cap on and verify!
That video makes me feel better about forgetting to take the solar filter off my camera during totality. I got a total of two shots of totality, one is garbage and the other one is pretty bad. Here’s a few from the day… (I also went to Wyoming, a little south of Douglas)
Before…
Basically C1…
Technically a photo of totality…
(I suppose it’s “OK” for being taken with the solar filter still on the lens.)
And one after C3…
I also made a gif of the last few seconds before C2…
(This is approximately 6 seconds in real time, the GIF may take a different amount of time to play. Oh, and I also apparently bumped my camera while I was doing this.)
The traffic at 3:08 PM…
Google Maps
More (or maybe the same) traffic 5 hours and 85 miles later…
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I heard that the normally 3-hour trip from central IL to the southern IL totality-zone took 7 hours on the drive back.
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My best friend said from 130 miles North of Cheyenne, it to over 10 hours to get to Wellington, Colorado.
You guys had more patience than I would ever have with that traffic.
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Jackson area wasn’t nearly as bad as predicted. Casper had been billing itself for a while as, “THE place to watch the eclipse.” We hit a small amount of traffic south of Jackson and then quite a bit heading back to Colorado at Laramie. Made it from Jackson to Estes Park, CO only about 30-45 mins delayed from normal driving times.
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It does show some flair activity well…
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Your pictures with filter were quite good and as clear as anything I was able to get using some nice equipment. Had you remembered to remove the filter you would have had some amazing shots of totality.
I also had a brain fart during. Forgot to empty a digital card on a video unit shooting the crowd reactions and light changes. The card filled 60 seconds before totality. My backup worked OK but it had automatic light level settings and didn’t show the real to life darkness.
Ah well. Statistics say I should live another 7 years for the next one.
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BTW: Seeing your traffic pictures make me so happy that I booked a 3 day stay at a campground in the path many months in advance. Took photos on a restricted lake shore 100 ft from my campsite. Drove home the next day in normal weekday traffic.
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I live in Kentucky and drove to hopkinsville to see the eclipse. Normally the drive is a little over 3 hours… It took 9 hours to get home… It was spirit crushing…
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Aw man! 60 seconds before totality and therefore only ~4 minutes before the two most dramatic changes in light… darn!
I thought about what you said many times while sitting motionless in traffic… We, and the people around us, got out of our cars several times during the long breaks. Some lasted several minutes.
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Thanks to the good folks on this forum, I learned about it six months or so ago and we had a great weekend at a tiny bungalow on the Oregon coast, with minimal traffic to and from.
I’m transferring the 4k eclipse drone video now.
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Ouch. I had a brother in WY for the eclipse. 5 hours to go 75 miles. It kind of sucks, but it also makes me feel happy that so many people were interested enough to travel to see the eclipse in real life and not just be satisfied with pictures and video.
I too didn’t think about the solar filter for my telescope during totality and thus couldn’t not get recentered in time to find it. Duh! Rookie eclipse viewer here.
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