Notice of Scheduled Embargo

I am adopting the precedent of Eclipse Orchestrator and embargoing further downloads right before an eclipse. This is to prevent customers from waiting until the last minute and expecting technical support.

The app will be set to "Not Available" starting March 25. Further Tech support will also be unavailable after that time

New in 1.6

  • Protects the Camera Preferences and Test Delay Dialogs against missing "safe" features in the camera. Some of these problems caused crashes.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented TestDelay from running in Telescope Mode (i.e without a lens)
  • Adds a new menu item that Dumps the current camera capabilities and settings to aid in support.

I have received reports from those with 6D cameras that the program crashes in TestDelay. 6D cameras have a quirk that they max out at 1/4000. TestDelay assumes the camera at least has 1/5000 and crashes if it does not.

This brings up another important point. To get an exposure of the brightest parts with a 6D you will need to set your f/stop to 7.1 or higher. CaptureEclipse will give you a warning, but again the warning did not anticipate the problems with the 6D so its advice does not cover this situation.

New in 1.5

  • Tested on Sonoma and Ventura (1.3 is also tested on Sonoma also). Most testing is now on M1.

    Note I discovered a problem with Sonoma(14.1.2). If the camera's card is empty when you first connect then the program hangs. The workaround is to make sure there is always at least one picture on the card. This will require a new SDK from Canon which will not be available until after April 24.

  • Support for the latest Canon SDK (13.17.10). This should resolve some of the capability issues reported in 1.1. It should also extend support to newer cameras. Canon claims support for Ventura.
  • Update to the USNO 1/1/24 measurement of ΔT for the April and October 24 eclipses. The program will now warn if the ΔT is old
  • Additional Corona Exposures
  • Markers inserted in Annular Eclipse sequences to mark the beginning of the Cxs and Max Eclipse. These can be correlated in the log to get the exact exposure times
  • Replaced old examples with upcoming eclipses
  • Bug fixes

Most of the changes are internal (such as the new SDK and the SDK's support for new cameras). Changes that are user-visible are marked with change bars as shown at the right.