Like some other astrophotographers I know, I'm better at capturing data than I am at processing and publishing it..
One year ago today I was watching the 'Great American Eclipse' in Idaho. One of my other 12 automated cameras had been planted on the 3385m/11,100ft summit of Table Mountain in Wyoming three days earlier. The day after the eclipse I returned to hike the mountain again and see what I had captured. Here is the story and the result.. that so nearly wasn't. I considered myself the luckiest person in the world that day.
https://vimeo.com/283356362
http://philhart.com/eclipse-over-the-tetons
Some technical info.. this was captured with Canon 5D Mark IV (via LensRentals), with Samyang 14mm f2.4 lens @f4. 2000 exposures of 1/8 sec at ISO100 captured over ten minutes covering two minutes of totality +/- four minutes either side. With superfast CF card, camera was capturing 3.3 frames per second without missing a beat for the whole ten minutes. Canon TC-80N3 timer release was used to program the three-day delay from setting up the camera till eclipse time - I had to make sure I had my maths right for that! Processing with Lightroom, LRTimelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro.
If my house was burning down and I could only save one image from my collection.. this would be it. I have never invested so much time, effort, passion and luck into anything else.
Enjoy.. Phil
