Total Solar Eclipse - April 8, 2024
| Object | Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 | |
| Telescope (Photo) | N/A | |
| Telescope (Guiding) | N/A | |
| Camera (Photo) | GoPro Hero 4 | |
| Camera (Guiding) | N/A | |
| Exposure Detail | GoPro MP4 video, at 4x normal speed, edited in Nero Video | |
| Location | Cape Girardeau, Missouri (N37.2991, W89.5840) | |
| Date | 04/08/2024 | |
| Note | This is a 10-minute video (sped up 4x), with a 4-minute lead-in to the 4+ minutes of totality, with another 2 minutes post-totality, as seen from, of all places, the Sam's Club parking lot in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I took this with an old GoPro Hero 4. It's taken with the widest angle and highest resolution that I could get on the GoPro, and all automatic settings, so the sun is by nature tiny and over-exposed. This was fine by me because I really wanted to capture what happened on the ground and in the rest of the sky as well. Notice how the moon's shadow moves in from the right (southwest) side and exits from the left (northeast). Also notice how dark things became. The light on the ground was also very dim and muted for both ends of this video because it only extends about a short while on either side of totality, and the sun was still almost covered by the moon. By the way, Venus is the bright dot a little below and to the right of the eclipsed sun. The video is only about 2:30 long, since I saved the original 10 minutes of video at 4x normal speed. |