Photos from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse from Menan Butte, Idaho

Here are photos that I took of the 2017 solar eclipse from atop South Menan Butte, Idaho. You should be able to download them by saving the images.

You may download and share for personal use. Please don't use them commercially or sell them without contacting me. See copyright note at the bottom of the page for details.

All photos were at ISO 100, f4 and varied from 1/25 to 1/400 of a second exposure using a Canon 7D with a 70-200 f4 lens set at 200mm. The exposure bracketing was controlled by Magic Lantern, a third party firmware hack for Canon cameras. They were processed in Lightroom and combined in EasyHDR and for some of them, post processing in Gimp.

This one is an HDR photo, made from 9 stacked photos. You can see the corona pretty far out, two red prominences on the upper right and right side of the sun, and a star to the lower left, probably Regulus. This is near the beginning of totality and represents pretty much what it looked like to the human eye.

Here is a view from late totality. It is also an HDR photo but it has been enhanced differently to show features closer to the sun. Three red prominences can be seen, two on the upper right and right side, and a third very faintly on the left side. Click it and zoom in to see the highest resolution. This has been updated a couple times as I learned how to use EasyHDR better and improved the tone mapping to show more detail.

Here is a photo suitable for a desktop background. It is 1920 X 1080 pixels and the sun is at the right so screen icons can be on the left. Click it to see the full sized image and then download it.

Here is a view that is enlarged and enhanced to show the two solar prominences. They are several times larger than the earth.

Here is the progression of the eclipse. They are not evenly spaced in time as some images did not turn out to be in focus. These are the good ones. You can click on each one to enlarge them.

Here is an interesting picture. I used photo stacking to pull a faint image out of the background and then adjusted the brightness and contrast up. You can see the face of the moon lit by earthshine. If I had known this was possible, I would have taken some longer exposures to get a better image.

Here is the photo suitable for a desktop background from above with the moon face added. Click it to see the full sized image and then download it.

Here are a couple videos looking down from the top of the butte at the start and end of totality. You won't see the sun as it was too high in the sky to capture with the lens I had, but you can get a good idea of how dark it got. They were shot with a Canon SL1 with a 24-105 f4 lens set at 24mm.

This one is the beginning of totality, looking south. The shadow comes in from the west (right side of the video).

Here is a link to the high resolution version that you should be able to download.

Eclipse Start High Resolution Video

This one is at the end of totality, looking east. The shadow heads away from you. You can see the Teatons for a few seconds as the shadow moves across them, darkening them against the background.

Here is a link to the high resolution version of this one.

Eclipse End High Resolution Video

Copyright Note:

All content Copyright (C) 2017 by Mark Goldberg.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Last modified 15 December, 2017