Exactly as I had recommended earlier, in post #5, for those paying attention, instead of hijacking the thread. For all those complaining about "unattended," Cruise Control is not an autonomous Waypoint Mission. It requires active pilot initiation and continuous monitoring. QED.
If the camera is continuously centered on your subject and you manually set the orbit, make a few orbits to monitor the Cruise Control settings, tweaking as necessary to keep it centered. The monitoring is your responsibility anyway, as the PIC. Just make sure the orbits are overlapping. GPS points "wander," too, as the GPS is only as good as the GNSS reception, and it has a variance of up to 15 feet.
Only one knucklehead playing drone police, and doesnt look like he has been around for more than 5 min. Just ignore posts like that. Its only an issue if a group all jump on the band wagon. Seems like most here understood what you want
Can't really understand the goal of flying in an orbit during an eclipse. What would be the "point of interest" on the ground? The solar eclipse is happening in the sky. Even at the totality of the solar eclipse, there is still plenty of sunlight available. It just gets relatively darker. It's not dark like in the middle of the night.
I'm searching for a good place to do it. The subject is yet TBD. I think just the view of how the eclipse affects the landscape will be interesting, but it will help to have a good subject. I was on the centerline in Nebraska for the 2017 eclipse and setup a gopro to film the surroundings. It was the first time in many years of using micro sd cards that I had a failure and lost the footage. Bummer.
That I can understand. The POI part is the confounding part to me. Bummer about your microSD failure. It would have been interesting to share for reference.
Just use the POI function. You'll be fine. There is no complete darkness at totality. It's just darker. Otherwise, there would be nothing to see on the video anyway!
