We're at solar maximum this year, so the solar flares are much more active (should be a good year for auroras).
OP, if you haven't already, please consider submitting your photos to the SunSketcher project, which is partnered with NASA in helping to define the shape of the sun.
That's for the app, which then auto-uploaded the pictures it took. You should be able to email pictures to one of the investigators; their names and affiliations are on the website.
Finally done with classes and I got some time to at least star processing my pics. Gonna be a while before I figure out all the HDR stuff, so here’s a pic of the prominences about 10 seconds before C3. It was absolutely nutty seeing them naked eye during the eclipse, and visually through my other telescope. Captured on April 8th, 2024 from Sikeston, MO.
A wonderful picture - very odd thing the sun is exactly 400 times bigger than the moon and exactly 400 times further away so we get these perfect eclipses.
One of them looked much larger with the naked eye during totality. It appeared to be almost 1/4 the diameter of the sun and extended out at about 8 o’clock when viewed from the Midwest USA. It was also a color red I’ve never seen before in my life. No photo or artificial light has ever looked like it to me before.
![2024 Eclipse - Prominences [OC]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53696772096_5bc8b5a290_o.png){kind=link}
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