kiwiapple
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I was manically checking the weather forecast for this morning's eclipse on a regular basis over the past several days, and it was a rollercoaster of changing predictions, going from 0% cloud several days ago, to 100% cloud on Friday evening and then finally 5% cloud for the key two-hour window that really mattered. Overnight I found that I could barely sleep for all the nightmares I kept having about either oversleeping, or becoming engaged with other things that made me forget to look for the eclipse or heading out and finding that there was no room for me to set up my gear in my desired location. In the end, none of those things happened (and in fact I was the only person out there shooting it, though several joggers and dog walkers did happen by while I was out). I had three rigs going--a Seestar S50 (which I feared would not find the sun successfully, since it was going to rise in eclipse), a Benro Polaris with my Canon R5 and an 800mm lens, and a regular tripod with a Canon 5DMkIV and 70mm lens to shoot a wide field timelapse (which I suppose I cannot share in this forum). I was pretty pleased with how it all turned out, and it was a spectacle to observe with my eclipse glasses on. Not bad for my first-ever solar eclipse!
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