It took a lot of effort to get to this total eclipse of the Sun, traveling from Australia to the US then to Mexico, but it worth every second to get under the Moons shadow for Totality.
We are on board the Holland America’s cruise ship called the Koningsdam and eclipse day was just perfect with the weather. The Captain did a wonderful job of positioning the ship right under the central line of the shadow in the sea halfway between Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlán off the Mexican coast.
There were three other cruise ships out here with us all lined up under the shadow.
I set up on the Aft deck along with many hundreds of other people to view this most spectacular cosmic event in the sky, this is my fifth solar eclipse and it was the most beautiful yet with over 4 minutes of totality, its awesome beauty just went on and on as compared to just 58 seconds of totality at the Exmouth total eclipse last year in western Australia.
Images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and 100-400 mm lens at 400mm making a focal length of 640mm, I bracketed my images and captured the diamond ring image with 1/2000th second exposure, and the totality image was only 1/30th second with ISO400 which surprised me greatly!
This is the second Total Eclipse of the Sun that I’ve done from a cruise ship and it shows that you can indeed get great photographs, the ships captain goes out of their way to steady the ship and they always have great speakers on board giving astronomy and space presentations, thank you to Holland America for making this magically moment for us :-)
I will post more images of the partials when I get back as this ship goes on to Hawaii and then to Alaska, I’m hoping if I’m lucky to capture the northern lights…Oh Wow wouldn’t that be amazing!
We are on board the Holland America’s cruise ship called the Koningsdam and eclipse day was just perfect with the weather. The Captain did a wonderful job of positioning the ship right under the central line of the shadow in the sea halfway between Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlán off the Mexican coast.
There were three other cruise ships out here with us all lined up under the shadow.
I set up on the Aft deck along with many hundreds of other people to view this most spectacular cosmic event in the sky, this is my fifth solar eclipse and it was the most beautiful yet with over 4 minutes of totality, its awesome beauty just went on and on as compared to just 58 seconds of totality at the Exmouth total eclipse last year in western Australia.
Images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and 100-400 mm lens at 400mm making a focal length of 640mm, I bracketed my images and captured the diamond ring image with 1/2000th second exposure, and the totality image was only 1/30th second with ISO400 which surprised me greatly!
This is the second Total Eclipse of the Sun that I’ve done from a cruise ship and it shows that you can indeed get great photographs, the ships captain goes out of their way to steady the ship and they always have great speakers on board giving astronomy and space presentations, thank you to Holland America for making this magically moment for us :-)
I will post more images of the partials when I get back as this ship goes on to Hawaii and then to Alaska, I’m hoping if I’m lucky to capture the northern lights…Oh Wow wouldn’t that be amazing!
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