Special equipment will capture close up images of eclipse

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CARBONDALE, IL – (Evie Allen, WSIL -TV.  Please click on the image for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

A group astrophotographers have set up outside of SIU’s football arena to take pictures of the eclipse using special equipment.

Astrophotographer Stephen Pizzo keeps a close eye on the sun’s movement, getting ready for Monday

“We’ll have everything here set up. We’ll start tracking at 9:00,” says Pizzo.

His team will capture the four stages of contact before, during, and after the total solar eclipse.
“You’ll have the sun in the center frame, then you’ll have plenty of black around it so that when we get to totality, that extra frame space is so you can see the corona,” says Pizzo.