Thank you so much. This was very informative. I appreciate your presentation style - enthusiastic, calm,clear, well thought out with clear explanations.

I'm heading to Texas from Minnesota for the eclipse and I've been watching videos for a month now. This was as good a video as I've seen. Very nicely done and I like the simplified idea. You defintely have calmed my nerves a bit. Thanks!

@dudredudaranovich5179

4 ай бұрын

On my way to Texas from Washington state too!!! This is going to be an amazing event.

@cnpraneeth

4 ай бұрын

I'm coming to Dallas, TX.... all the way from India 🇮🇳 for this eclipse.

@HamiltonAmateurAstronomers

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Yours is the first video I've watched in preparation for the April, 2024 eclipse. Thank you so much for all the information. This will be my last realistic chance to see a total eclipse. I do want to get a few of my own still photos, but I know so many will get much better photos. My main goal is to actually see the eclipse.

@givemespace2742

6 ай бұрын

If I may add my two cents worth... Saw my first total solar eclipse last year at age 67 and it was magnificent. Can't wait for the next one which for us I Australia is 2028 I think. Only 2 minutes of totality in our 2023 eclipse and taking photos so a busy time. I had a camera with a solar filter and long lens to record the eclipse and a 360 degree camera to record the surroundings. Glad I did that. In the end I ran the fixed camera doing video as I got confused about what settings to use and the advice from other experienced eclipse watchers was 'DO NOT MISS WATCHING THE ECLIPSE FIRST HAND'. They were right and that's the advise I want to pass on. Don't get wrapped up in fiddling with your camera. No picture comes close to what you see and experience. Totality is amazing especially if you have not seen it before. It is literally unbelievable and your brain will just go 'what the actual f**k'. Literally. I got some decent pictures. Not as good as other people's but while they are mediocre they are mine. I bought a couple of better ones after the event but I am glad I was warned to make sure I saw totality with my own eyes. I am glad I captured the event on the 360 camera too. It does not show the eerie look of the eclipsed sun very well (in reality it looks like a hole in the sky into utter blackness) but it captured the event and the reactions of the eclipse watchers and me very well. Good luck with the weather and I hope to see lots of good videos and pictures. I have posted a video of the Exmouth eclipse if anyone is interested but I won't post a link here on someone else's channel.

An absolutely fabulous and knowledgeable video! I'm actually just getting into amateur photography for the eclipse, and yes I've already got my filters :) It'll be a busy couple minutes in S.Texas but so worth it.

Incredibly informative video! Much appreciated. Have been contemplating trying my hand at shooting this upcoming eclipse with a star tracker and 400mm telephoto lense/DSLR combo. Wanted to make sure I was as prepared as possible, and this will certainly help!

Thanks for the great video and planning for 8 April 2024. Did you mention that the optimum viewpoint is on the US side of the Falls on Goat Island

Outstanding, 2017 was great even with a simple smartphone.

Great video. I'll be watching it through several times, taking notes as I plan my photography for the day. At the moment I think I'll have a 400mm lens on an APSC DSLR on a tripod with a geared ball head, operating manually, and a mirrorless camera on another tripod with a wide angle lens taking time lapse. This will be my first total solar eclipse. I'm living in Mississauga; presumably the Niagara area will be good for viewing?

@Jimmy_Cavallo

5 ай бұрын

I think the Niagara area has more cloudy than sunny days. The atmosphere is very damp up that way with more precipitation compared to the Midwestern states.

For the 2017 eclipse I used Xavier Jubier’s Solar Eclipse Maestro to automate exposure sequences for two cameras, a wide angle on fixed tripod covering the sun’s path from sunrise through awhile past totality and a telephoto on equatorial mount recording the eclipse from first contact through last. It was a lot of work to set up and test the automation scripts but on eclipse morning when I started the script running on real time instead of simulated my only job was standing between the cameras ready slip the filters off on voice prompt from the script and replace again on prompt. I was free to witness totality directly, standing between the cameras with a filter in each hand. I did manage to capture full HDR set from corona through earthshine. Post processing was a challenge. My skills have since improved and so has the available software. Hoping for clear skies for all.

Very good information and informative! Take care and good luck!

Excellent - well presented and very practical.

Using Eclipsedroid to automate my DSLR. Easy and really convenient to do without laptop. Worked flawlessly in 2017

Wimberly head if you can swing it. Works fabulous, and for LOTS of other photography as well. It's not just for telephotos, by the way. I even use it with a 50 mm prime!

Thanks for making this video - excellent advice for multiple kinds of viewers.

@HamiltonAmateurAstronomers

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

This video is amazing thank you. I've got like a full page of notes lol!

@Etimespace

4 ай бұрын

Savorinen and greetings to all science journalists around the Earth. On April 8, 2024, Mexicans and Texans may have a chance to make history and scientifically prove the current atomic model wrong. The so-called Allais Effect may be a real phenomenon, but in such a way that it does not always occur during a solar eclipse. It would be about how close to the center of the Earth the line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Moon intersects the center of the Earth. That is, how close the alignment of the Sun, the Moon and the Moon’s shadow passes the center of the Earth. The closer, the stronger the phenomenon. If so, scientific experiments should always be done when a total solar eclipse occurs at noon and near the equator. The April 8 solar eclipse is pretty much exactly at noon in Mexico, I believe, and the area is much closer to the equator than the North Pole. Ok, there is a lot of pressure in the center of the Earth. I assume that massive and dense particles originating from the center of the Earth are pushed out of the Earth all the time, and on April 8th they are pushed through the area shadowed by the Moon directly towards the Moon and the Sun. They meet particles corresponding to the countersphere, which originate from the Sun and the Moon. During straight alignment, these particles have time to push through the corresponding particles again and again. During the pushing through of each opposing particle, there is a strong interaction and thus the energy in the particles is dispersed over a larger area and the probability of encountering the next one increases, etc. Pushing through the moon also activates these particles. Inside the moon, this small-scale energy moves more densely and inside these particles, etc. Pushing towards the moon, these particles already have time to activate more than normal, because they encounter particles that have already penetrated the moon and activated inside the moon. Physicists are already planning a new particle accelerator at Cern. Its price is estimated at around 20 billion euros. On April 8, anyone can do scientific experiments very cheaply. For example, local tennis clubs could use devices that launch tennis balls. First, the device is adjusted to fly the balls as far and accurately as possible. So it’s not necessarily worth trying to make the balls fly just as far as possible, if you can’t make the balls fly quite precisely the same distance, you know. Ok, when we find out how far the balls fly with a certain power on average normally, we wait for the Solar eclipse and when the Moon’s shadow starts to reach the area, we start sending tennis balls into the air and monitor how far the balls fly. Perhaps a surprise will be experienced during the exam. You should fly the balls in at least two different directions. From north to south and from south to north. The more distinct groups, the better. Everyone should also think about some other scientific experiments that can be done in connection with the so-called to gravitation. Traditionally, experiments have been done with pendulums and gravity measuring devices. You should also use them. If someone has ready these small rockets that don’t aim for orbit, but only test how high you can get, then maybe during the solar eclipse it would be interesting to try if you can maybe even get much higher than you could assume based on the calculation in advance. Ps. If the solar eclipse occurs in June, then I assume that it is worth doing these experiments even if the eclipse is closer to one of the polar regions than the equator and even if it is late evening or early morning. This is because then the Earth is in the area between the Sun and the supermassive object in the center of the galaxy. Perhaps from the center of the galaxy there is also a kind of matter / energy that physicists do not yet understand. At least that’s what I assume. That is, these supermassive objects in the centers of galaxies may emit dark matter as separate condensations that are much denser than the separate condensations in the nuclei of the atoms of the observable matter. The denser, the slower the internal motion / time and the less these dark matter particles would interact with observable matter. In June, when the Earth is in the area between the Sun and the center of the galaxy, these dark matter particles inside the Earth would meet the energy from the Sun in the opposite sphere and thus their internal movement / time would speed up and the interaction with the Earth’s matter would intensify. I assume that the Earth gets new matter in its center in June when these dark matter particles collide in the center of the Earth with the nuclei of the Earth’s atoms. Could the Earth even get new water molecules in its center? That is, would new solid matter, but also new water and gas molecules, be born in the center of the Earth? If so, perhaps the researchers should observe that more water and gas molecules escape from the Earth than estimated. Greetings to all Mexicans and Texans. Also for all those who have the opportunity to participate in scientific experiments on April 8. April 8, 2024 may be a very significant day for humanity, but it may not be so without you🙂 ❤️

@HamiltonAmateurAstronomers

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thanks for the great video. I bought your book. I figure it's a fair trade: two beers for insights from your 50 years of experience.

@HamiltonAmateurAstronomers

2 ай бұрын

Fantastic!

I used Eclipse Orchestrator Pro during the 2017 eclipse and it worked great. I had to tune the number and timing of the shots at totality, but I never changed the exposures. During the eclipse all I did was remove and replace the filter when it prompted me to. There is a sequence in the program for the 2023 Annular eclipse but it also has the prompts to remove the filter at totality like during a total solar eclipse. I know I can’t do that and I need to leave the filter on, but will the bracketed shots and exposer settings in the program work with the filter still on the telescope?

Thank you for this video. Very informative! I just want to be sure I understand what you are saying about the 4K wide-angle video with mirrorless camera option. Are you saying that I can set this up and run it for a few minutes before and during totality *without* a filter attached? That this will not damage my camera?

@HamiltonAmateurAstronomers

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

💥 thank you for so much great information. 13:08 during this intervalometer sequence you said that no filter is needed.? I don’t understand that since all of talk about this event says don’t aim the camera at the sun without a filter except during totality.

@alandyer910

5 ай бұрын

Yes, for wide angle time lapses you don’t use a filter. But keep the camera lens covered or aimed away from the Sun until you start the sequence a few minutes before totality. Then cap it again no more than a few after totality.

@Jimmy_Cavallo

5 ай бұрын

@@alandyer910 Got it. Thanks so much

Planning on attempting to capture the April eclipse this year in New Hampshire. Using a Sony A7sIII with a Sony 100-400 mm lems. would Aperture Priority work to minimize camera changes manually? Thank you for the video, great presentation.

@Armadillo750

5 ай бұрын

Put it on manual mode and change one thing, preferably the shutter speed. Test your gear on the sun now before the eclipse. A good starting point for the partial phases leading to totality would be f8, ISO between 100-400 and a shutter speed of 1/500-1/1000. During totality increase your exposure by 5-6 stops. Good luck to you this April.

@Jimmy_Cavallo

5 ай бұрын

@@Armadillo750 do you mean open up 5-6 stops.??

@Armadillo750

5 ай бұрын

​@@Jimmy_Cavallo Yes. During totality slow down your shutter speed by 5-6 stops in 1 stop increments taking a couple of pictures at each interval. The slowest I would go on shutter speed would be a 1/8 to 1/2 sec.

My question: Is a 16 stop ND filter good for eclipse photos, or will my camera be damaged? I thought it was good but doing some recent inquiry on the net some seem to say it has to be a mylar filter.

@alandyer910

5 ай бұрын

The ND100000 filters sold by K&F, NISI, Kase and others work fine. Even with the camera aimed at the Sun for several hours for a sequence. I used the Kase filter on Oct 14, 2023 with no issues and the others in practice runs lately.

For photographing the diamond ring, how soon can I remove the solar filter?

@ArtUniverse

5 ай бұрын

Around 15-30 seconds before totality is fine.

Will a Wide angle image with a gopro work?

@fabiopignata

7 ай бұрын

Yes, put on tripod and go timelapse

How are you able to safely photograph the eclipse without a solar filter?

@fabiopignata

7 ай бұрын

Its dark during totality, you can watch the sun with even a telescope. Thats why 99% eclipses are just nothing compared to totals

Would it make more sense to lock the exposure during a time lapse on a DSLR? Whenever I use auto exposure, the final sequence always flickers a bit as the camera's auto exposure isn't perfect. What are your thoughts on this?

@alandyer910

10 ай бұрын

No, that’s not the method I’d recommend as the scene will go very dark at totality, showing little. To deflicker use LRTimelapse to process the raw files. It’s essential for any serious time lapse work.

@nicoepsilon0

5 ай бұрын

I am thinking of doing something like this too, I know the exposure will drop off a lot during totality, but that's my goal anyway, I don't like that autoexposure compensates for most of the changes. As long as I capture the silhouette of the crowd, the sky around the horizon and the corona nice and bright. It means I should probably overexpose at the beginning, but I don't know by how many stops. I hope +1 or +2 stops at the beginning should be enough so that I am not completely underexposed at totality. If I cant figure it out I will do as he says, with auto exposure, and try to reproduce the dimming in post processing

How are you able to safely photograph the eclipse without a solar filter?

@fabiopignata

7 ай бұрын

Even watch through telescope with ur eyes. Thats why totals are awesome. It will be my 4th total and will never get used to it!