2017 Total Solar Eclipse Imaged from Festus, MO., 8/21/2017

August 21st, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse from Festus, Missouri USA

(Above images all courtesy of NASA. See "Legal" below.)


NOTE: Links below and to the LEFT are uploaded in high-resolution .MOV file format for pc. You can view these images directly from your web browser or by downloading and playing them in Windows Media Player, Windows 10 Movie and Picture Viewer, I-Tunes, or Quick-Time if you use a Mac pc. Some of the files are very LARGE and may take a few seconds to load on your pc or smartphone. IF THE FILES WON'T PLAY ON YOUR SMARTPHONE, I-PAD OR TABLET: Image links below and in the CENTER are for smartphones, I-Pads or tablet pc's that will not load the high-res. versions:
Hi-Res. Video Links for PC:	Links for Smartphones, I-Pads	Notes---Some of these are very LARGE files and might take a few seconds to load and begin playing on your pc or smart phone.
Video at 17:08 UTC	Video at 17:08 UTC	Taken after first Moon limb contact during beginning phase of eclipse. A nice grouping of four sunspots are visible.
Video at 17:11 UTC	Video at 17:11 UTC	Later in eclipse a little over an hour before totality
Video at 17:19 UTC	Video at 17:19 UTC	Shows first sunspot group being occulted by Moon's limb
Video at 18:02 UTC	Video at 18:02 UTC	Later in eclipse phase, about 15 minutes before beginning of totality
Video at 18:09 UTC	Video at 18:09 UTC	About 8 minutes before totality, showing Moon's limb occulting 2nd group of sunspots
Video at 18:16 UTC	Video at 18:16 UTC	**Best video: Shows Sun "blink-out" at beginning of totality.
Video at 18:23 UTC	Video at 18:23 UTC	Starts about 3 minues after end of totality
Video at 18:35 UTC	Video at 18:35 UTC	Taken starting about 15 minutes after totality had ended
Video at 18:41 UTC	Video at 18:41 UTC	End of imaging loops, showing interaction of eclipse with terrestrial clouds

Landscape video and picture links below. Click on links to show a video and pic from our viewing site in Festus, MO., taken just prior to the Solar Eclipse and totality:
Photo of equipment setup prior to eclipse
Very short landscape video clip taken just seconds before totality

Click here for more solar eclipse pictures from 8/21/2017 at the Festus, MO. observing site by Jim Fisher, amateur astronomer

Imaging Equipment Details:

Telescope: William Optics Z71 Zenithstar 71mm aperture ED doublet lens refractor w/William Optics "Flat-6A" Flattener/Reducer @ f/4.7, 335mm focal length
Camera: ZW Optical ASI 120MC-S color planetary video camera shooting in 8 bit mode
Mount: Celestron NexStar Evolution Alt-Azm Computerized Go-To Mount
Image Scale: 2.31 arc-seconds/pixel
Telescope Filter: Thousand Oaks Optical Glass Type II Solar White-Light filter
Camera Filter: ZWO Integrated IR-cut glass lens built-in to camera in front of CCD chip
Exposure Method: .Avi video file recording to laptop pc
Software: FireCapture imaging software, Adobe Photoshop CS-2
Imaging Site Location: Festus, MO., Comfort Inn Motel, Veterans Blvd. (Rte. A)
Date: August 21st, 2017

** LEGAL: All time-lapse videos on this page are copyrighted to their owner, Wade Van Arsdale. All solar still-images at top of this page are copyrighted to NASA as noted. If you redistribute any of these images or videos as digital or printed reproductions you are required to give written credit to the indicated file owner(s) in your redistribution package.

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