8 April 2024 Solar Eclipse

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