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Hi Robin
Had a perfect day for the Annular eclipse.
Traveled to Junction TX to get almost on centerline.
Used Sharpcap with my Lunt 60mm dbl stack solar scope to get some great ser files.
Ran a sequence of captures using your "Start Capture " sequence generator.
Set it to capture 10 frames, pause 60 sec, then cap 10 again . ran this for 180 captures.
Worked great until my laptop battery died. sigh. But it did last until moon was exiting the sun.
Here is a short sequence of the full set of images.
Program was great.
Thanks

Hi,

so glad to hear that everything (apart from the laptop battery) went to plan!

The images have come out really nicely - are you planning on making an animation by any chance? That could be very cool!

cheers,

Robin

Yes very happy with the results.
Yes, I have plenty of images to put together a nice video of the eclipse.
The tricky part.
During the Max, I was shooting long duration video ser files .
So eclipse moves pretty much in real time, which means real slow.
Fortunately the ser file viewer allow you to decimate the still frames extracted from the video ,so i'm experimenting with how many frames to extract to keep the final video moving along.
I'll see if I can create a good top-motion video and get it posted.
Take care
Steve