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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis Powell" data-source="post: 3611258" data-attributes="member: 5327">Yes, I noticed the big shift from the cross wind. Thank goodness for the wind, as it swept away the contrail such that it didn't mar my subsequent photos. I'm afraid I don't know anything about airplanes, nor can I remember anything about the experience (like, could we hear it?) to be of further help. I was too focused on viewing the eclipse! Some day I will digitally process my eclipse images and learn to digitally "stack" them to produce an interesting photo of the corona. I hope to generate an image that shows much corona detail from disk to distant, but that still retains some sense of the brightness gradient. I know others with better equipment and dedication to photography have better images, but I got my series of shots, from partial, to Bailey's Beads, to totality, and then diamond ring effect with a minimum of effort [Two pushes of a remote cord button and one manual re-set of top shutter speed, with camera set to take an autobracketed set of 9 images each time]. Playing with these will be a fun winter (or late summer post-breeding/molt period/pre-migration season) project some day.--AP</blockquote>