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Photographer:

cobbu2

Location of Photo:

North Potomac, Maryland

Date/Time of photo:

8 April 2024, 3:58 PM EDT

Equipment:

A circa-1965 3.5-inch Questar Quartz Standard Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope with the off-axis solar filter and a Samsung S8 Smartphone camera afocally mounted to a 25mm Televue Plössl eyepiece.

Description:

This was one of a sequence of images made as the eclipse progressed, when an airliner further eclipsed the Sun along with the Moon about a half hour after the maximum coverage of 88% of the Sun by the Moon in the Washington, DC area. Post processing was accomplished using Adobe CS5 and Luminar Neo.

Website:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/allancobb/