Eclipse 1

Another excellent Eclipse image posted here...
Yours and Richard Tellers are as good as anything I have seen anywhere of the close up view.
Well done.

Great image. It is interesting that the smoke caused the corona to show up red. It adds an interesting look to the image.
I have thought about doing a composite but had the same thought as you. The first thought I had when I saw Richard's image was that it is not the way it really looked. I don't have a great ideas. I will probably try and put it together the way it actually happened and see what it looks like. 

Fabulous!  I forgot to take off the filter during totality, so my totality shots are nil.  I love the red hue here.

Re. your question: The crescent should be opening to the right early on with totality in the middle, and then to the left at the end pointing back to totality.  Right?  That is how it progressed for us also in Central Oregon.  Parentheses around totality sound perfect to me.  Did you track it in such at way that you can't combine as such? 

Sandy, it's very cool that you got some different color at totality.  Though we had some smoke haze come through in the morning, it was gone and didn't affect the color at all east of Prineville.

Max

Marilyn - yes, that's the progression, but it looks odd to have the crescents pointing toward the right. See Richard's shot here on NPN - looks great, but not an accurate depiction, as the crescents are pointing the opposite way..
I'll try all versions when I have a minute.

Sandy

Excellent shot, Sandy.  Looks like you got what you were looking for, a beautiful "diamond".  I didn't view the eclipse in person, so I don't have any suggestions to improve.  Very nicely done.

Nice shot.  I'm glad the smoke was of some benefit.  I am a bit confused regarding your comment on Richard's shot and progression.  Looking from left to right, frame by frame, this is how the eclipsed progressed and wouldn't the sun be higher in the sky as the eclipse progressed. And, generally, time lines move from left to right. I agree, though, that in my mind's eye, it did seem to progress the other way, but I don't think that's right.  Am I missing something?  

PS.  I tried to send you this in an e-mail, but it was sent back to me as un-deliverable.

Allen, the NPN mail thing often doesn't work. About 3/4 of my personal notes come back. My address on NPN  is correct: Moonshadow.Sandy@yahoo.com - feel free to email directly

The eclipse progressed from upper right to lower left - from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock.
Richard's image - and most I am seeing - progress the opposite way, from left to right (I think; this is getting confusing!)
Sandy.

Hmmm: I think we are all talking about different things "progressing"? Is the eclipse the moon's shape or the sun's remains?  Are we talking figure or ground?  The moon moved from upper right to lower left as the sun did the opposite. 

Here goes at another explanation at how this looked in Central Oregon (though I saw images online of vertical rather than diagonal ecliptic obstruction from other parts of the country):

• The sun moved from lower in the sky to higher in the sky (as it always does in the morning).
• The eclipsed section of the sun (i.e. the dark section / the moon's obstruction) moved from the top right of the sun (the 1:00 part of a clock face) diagonally downward and to the left.
• Thus the earliest sun crescents were lower left in the frame with tips pointing upward and to the right and the post totality crescents were upper right in the frame with tips pointing downward and to the left. 

I think that is what Richard's image shows, which is accurate for my experience in Central Oregon as well--basically totality in the middle with nicely symmetrical parentheses on either side.

I will admit that the eclipse and astral energies did something to my brain this weekend.  I kept pointing right and saying left, saying you and meaning me.  It was weird and I am only now convinced that I didn't suffer a stroke ;-).  Let me know if my brain is still scrambled.  If it is, I won't drive for a few more days

ML

This are the eclipse positions and orientation, as per NASA:

Sun coverage progressing from top right to lower left, and crescents facing as shown here.  

This is how we saw it and illustrates what I mean (?)   I think!   or are we all crazy?  LOL

The red color from the smoke lends this a unique character.  It's definitely different than what I saw here in Music City.   You captured some nice detail in the corona.  Nicely done!

It's a mind bender, but all I can say is that the sun rose from left (east) to right (south) and the moon set from higher to lower.  In my mind, RIchard's image is correct with early stages lower left and later upper right. That's how I had to adjust the camera on the tripod during the event.  I remember driving back as the bite out of the cookies was at the 7 o'clock position--higher in the sky but passing back out of the way of the sun.  

here is a video: https://youtu.be/bHdbGWSGnQI


Nonetheless, I won't drive tomorrow.
ML

The color from the drift smoke adds a nice dimension, as does the dead of light. Nicely done, Sandy.
--P

This is very cool, Sandy.  Love the red tint of the smoke.  Unique and very well done.

Sandy, 

I think if you were to review the timeline on your photos, you will find that at the start of the eclipse the sun is on the left and moon is coming into the top right side.  The 1st diamond ring effect is lower left as the last of the sun disappears behind the moon.  Then as it appears on the end of the eclipse you get the diamond top right.  The orientation of the sun/moon are correct in the post I made and others, aside from a little rotation for aesthetic reasons, otherwise that is how it happened.  If a person wanted a true representation they would start with the eclipse at 6:30-7:00 position, moving upward to center then on up to 1:30-2:00 This would make a tall slender and not too appealing rendition.  
Oh, and a fine rendition of the diamond ring effect on your photograph!

Well done Sandy.  Wish I could have witnessed myself.

Lon

Really nice image. Nothing like that in Virginia.

Thanks for sharing.

Sandy, this is very nice. I like the little bit of sunstar in this. As for the discussion about the progression of photos, Richard Olsen's displays correctly. The sun moved up and to the right in the sky, meaning his lower left phase happened first, and progressed up and to the right from there. It took me a lot of back and forth thinking about this, but that seems right to me now. It's strange that NASA's is oriented the opposite way.

Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for recommending the farm in Madras, my wife and I had a wonderful experience there!

Love it Sandy. That tiny ring effect appearing is a sweet catch, as is the red color.