CaptureEclipse 17+

I used this app to automate my captures for the 2024 Total Eclipse in Texas, and was VERY pleased with the results!

The original script it generated was perhaps a little two optimistic about my camera's performance, as in testing tended to run a little long, but after switching off the setting to capture earthshine and reducing the number of attempted chromosphere and prominance captures, it worked great.

For the partial phases, I also noticed that the shutter speed was much too fast for the Thousand Oaks filter I was using. After switching the the generic ND 5 setting, it worked great. But that's why you should always do extensive trial runs before hand.

During totality, we had intermittent clouds, but still managed to capture the corona perfectly, and the longest 1-second shot was enough to capture earthshine anyway.

Hopeful that I'll get to use this app again in a few years in Spain!

I spent months trying all kinds of way to capture lots of exposures during last Thursday's total solar eclipse off the coast of Australia.

I found CaptureEclipse a few weeks ago, and used it last week with excellent results.

Highly recommended.

I'm grateful that you have created and brought this to the public for use. Sincerely appreciated. It will be automating my main camera during the upcoming eclipse.

One thing I cannot seem to get going - I would like to timelapse the partial phases as well, and it doesn't allow below 5% in the script. Any reason why I cannot set it to 1% for example?

Camera: Canon R7.

Thanks!