Exmouth

[Peter Ward]

After a near enough 5000km drive we are finally in Exmouth for TSE 2023.

Put the system together late morning (gee...it was warm) with the AP ensemble working perfectly.

Many eclipse chasers here....now all we need are clear skies!

[Atmos]

Won’t be any clear skies here in Melbourne so I hope it’s clear in the only part of Australia that gets to see it :lol:

[gregbradley]

Fabulous rig. Is that a Stowaway and an AP155 on a Mach 2?

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

It is indeed. It will have an EOSRa on the back, the 155 will have a EOSR5

It's eclipse day...and blue skies :D

[Hans Tucker]

God that AP155 is a sexy beast with that 4" Focuser.

[Peter Ward]

The AP155 is last oil-spaced triplet produced by AP and has
minimal lens reflections as a result.

It was the right tool for the job. Very glad I went with it

Attached is a single frame...really looking forward to processing the HDR data. :cool:

[leon]

Wow peter that is awesome, :eyepop:right tool for the job indeed, well done,

Leon:thumbsup:

[bojan]

Wow!

[glenc]

Thanks Peter for an amazing image

[AstroViking]

That's a ripper of an image! Well done!

[JA]

Excellent Peter :thumbsup:
I'm interested to see the HDR. On the HDR subject, not sure it'd be possible, due to overexposure/flaring, but an earthshine(?) composite would be interesting.

Best
JA

[Peter Ward]

Thanks guys. I managed about 600 exposures in total (running two cameras) but due the very brief totality (58 seconds at my location) and while I did get the outer corona, I did not plan a deep exposure for an earth shine shot...but you never know as stacking a bunch of the longer exposures...it might pop into view.

Attached just one more...note, despite the photosphere still being in view, the sheer lack of internal reflection from the AP objective. :thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

That is a winner Peter :)

[Dave882]

Amazing shots!!! :eyepop:

[bratislav]

Looks great Peter! You will have a fantastic set of subs to play with.

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences with Larsson-Sekanina filters ;)

[bratislav]

... and lack of diffraction effects from new Canon bodies/chips. It really is an amazing progress (my 2017 similar shots with photosphere arcs showed strong diffraction caused by pixel grid of relatively old 7D). Better microlensing/Bayer filters?

[Nikolas]

What an adventure and what an image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EpickCrom]

Amazing shots of the total solar eclipse Peter!

Thanks for sharing :eyepop:

[Retrograde]

Those prominences! Great pictures Peter. :eyepop:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks yet again for the positive comments gentlemen.
I am champing at the bit to process the raw data, but only packed an iPad
which only very basic tinkering during stops along the rather long road
Back to Sydney. I have to say. It was one of the prettiest eclipses I have seen.
The chromosphere extended almost completely around the solar disk, with
Looping and detached proms. Beautiful!

[h0ughy]

Awesome pictures Peter, looking forward to seeing the end results

[OzEclipse]

Beautiful details Peter. That Starfire is incredible. After you told me yesterday that you had posted on IIS, I was searching through the photos section for a while looking for them.

Great results, very well-deserved from the big effort to get yourself and gear over here. If these are rats, I look forward to seeing your processed results.

Cheers
Joe

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Joe, I must admit to having my doubts about hauling so much gear 10,000km (there and back) but looking at the data, it was a good call.
The Mach2 performed exquisitely. Everything was tight as a drum and tracking
was flawless.

[PhilTas]

Thank you for sharing these images Peter - they are absolutely awesome!!!

[Stephane]

Wow. Some fantastic data there Peter!