2017 Solar Eclipse: Partial Phase I
- Telescope: Stellarvue SVA130T-IS
- Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini 2 controller
- Autoguiding: No
- Optical Configuration: 0.72x field flattener & reducer (f/5); Baader solar filter
- Camera: Canon 60Da
- Light Frame(s): Single, 1/5000-sec exposure
- Calibration: None (no darks, no flats, no biases)
- Exposure Time: 1/5000 sec
- ISO: 100
- Processing: Photoshop CC
- Imaging Location: Prairie City, Ore.
Before totality, the Moon slowly swallows up a string of sunspots along the solar equator during the 2017 solar eclipse.