Pre-Eclipse Imaging Reflection
A bout a week before the eclipse, I brought the telescope I had planned to use for imaging outside to make sure everything was working together as it should. I mainly wanted to check the new telescope mount with automatic GPS tracking but I figured I'd might as well put everything all together to test them. The new mount worked just fine and that is where my attention was but it turns out that I had also found an unexpected problem. I was getting a reflection of the sun in the lower left quadrant of the image which you can see in the animated GIF below. While I was outside testing the mount, everything seemed to be working just fine but after bringing everything back indoors and uploading the photos and videos to my desktop computer, I noticed this odd reflection on my monitor. I knew I had to correct that before the day of the eclipse. When I brought everything outside again for a second test, I found that the easiest way to eliminate this reflection was to tilt my solar filt