Disappearance of the sun - April 8, 2024
Channel: Kirk Wines
Date: 12/04/2024

The sun disappears in real time as the moon covers it during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

This video was recorded at Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area on a south-facing bluff at the shoreline of Rend Lake, Illinois on April 08, 2024 at 1:59 p.m. CDT.  It was shot through a 25mm Plossl eyepiece on a 4" f/6 refractor with a Canon A1200 point-and-shoot camera attached with an Orion SteadyPix Deluxe.  A thick film solar filter covered the telescope's objective lens for the duration of this video.  Note that Baily's beads appear shortly before totality.

Unfiltered totality and reappearance of the sun can be seen at https://youtu.be/CJ12-fT7ydk