Automated Imaging of the 2024 Eclipse

Presented by the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society

January 19th @ 8:00 pm ET
Held Exclusively on Zoom

Automated Imaging of the 2024 Eclipse
presented by Fred Bruenjes & Xavier Jubier

When it comes to photographing your first total solar eclipse, veteran eclipse chasers all say the same thing: DON’T! Trying to keep the Sun centered and getting the right exposures could make you sacrifice the precious minutes of totality. That was good advice 25 years ago, but today a laptop computer connected to a DSLR or DSLM camera can do all the work for you.

Two popular eclipse automation programs exist that free you to view totality and not your camera! Fred Bruenjes, creator of "Eclipse Orchestrator" for the PC, and Xavier Jubier, author of "Solar Eclipse Maestro" for Mac-based systems, will demonstrate how to use their software to preprogram all exposure information so that you can enjoy the eclipse visually. You can have your cake and eat it too!

About the Speakers:
Fred Bruenjes is an electrical engineer living in Warrensburg, Missouri. He is the co-owner of DayStar Filters and the founder of Moonglow Technologies. Xavier Jubier is an engineer and currently works as an IT manager for a multinational French company outside of Paris. He started to get involved with solar eclipses in the early 90s and maintains a website related to eclipses.

https://www.kasonline.org/eclipse.html