• 8 April 2024 Solar Eclipse
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  • 8 April 2024 Solar Eclipse.
  • Date:  8 April 2024
  • FOV:  approximately to 60' × 40'; the angular size of the sun is 30'
  • Telescope for Solar Disk:  Orion 127mm Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope
  • (measured 1379mm, f/10.9, nominally 1540mm, f/12.1)
  • Guiding:  tracking only
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Color CMOS, cooling off, gain 90
  • Pixel size:  4.78 μm
  • Resolution:  0.715 arcsec/pixel
  • Filter:  Thousand Oaks full aperture Solarlite safe solar filter
  • Stacking:  one hundred thirty-one single 3 millisecond frames processed using Pixinsight
  • Total Time:  3 milliseconds per frame, one frame each 60 seconds
  • Refer to the corona picture for data for that stacked frame
  • Location:  Jay Peak near Newport, VT