Fuzzy at Tony Town

2023 Annular Eclipse, Utah

I just visited Valley of the Gods, Utah to photograph the 2023 Annular Eclipse.

This is a new section of Team Toad's web pages, so I will be adding new items frequently. For now I wanted to get my best three eclipse images on the web page.

After diligently watching Fred Espanak's posts on Facebook, I chose to head to Valley of the Gods, Utah.

My primary goal was to camp Northwest of Castle Butte to catch the sun going behind the rock. On Thursday, two days before the event, I headed out from Farmington and got to my planned spot a hour before the 10:31am mark. I wanted to see where the sun would be.

Unfortunately, a hundred other people had the same idea, and they'd snapped up all the camps where that was possible, a couple camped out a week in advance just to grab them.

So I headed about a mile further West, and found a large campsite with one vehicle already there. Tony was friendly and happy to share the camp, and "Tony Town" was established.

The captures

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"Pearls over Battleship Butte" Valley of the Gods, Utah October 14, 2023 Composite of 67 images, same camera and framing. EXIF: Canon 5d3 with EF 16-35mm f2.8L at 35mm, f2.8 ISO 200 for 6 seconds (foreground). Sky: 66 exposures 3 minutes apart. Nisi 16.5 stop solar filter ISO 200, f16, 1/100th seconds. Processed in Pixelmator.	"Eclipse over Battleship Butte" Valley of the Gods, Utah October 14, 2023 Digital art version, Composite of 68 images. Two foreground, solar trail moved and colorized. EXIF: Canon 5d3 with EF 16-35mm f2.8L at 35mm, f2.8 ISO 200 for 6 seconds (foreground). Sky: 66 exposures 3 minutes apart. Nisi 16.5 stop solar filter ISO 200, f16, 1/100th seconds. Processed in Pixelmator.
"Ring of Fire" Valley of the Gods, Utah October 14, 2023 Single image. EXIF: Canon 7d2 with EF 300m f4L plus 2x Unknown mylar solar filter, ISO 1600, f10 for 1/125 seconds.	"Bailey's Beads" Valley of the Gods, Utah October 14, 2023 Single image. EXIF: Canon 7d2 with EF 300m f4L plus 2x Unknown mylar solar filter, ISO 1600, f10 for 1/125 seconds.