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Basil

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As some may know, we traveled to Wyoming to watch/photograph the total eclipse last August. When I shot the eclipse, I shot a series of pictures during totality with only the shutter speed changing. As you shoot slower and slower shutter speeds, the corona can be seen further out from the surface of the sun. Unfortunately, the parts of the corona closer to the sun then become too bright (over exposed). I finally got around to doing a composite in Photoshop that blends all 9 or 10 photos and normalizes the exposure across the entire corona so the entire corona looks properly exposed. It involves a bunch of Photoshop magic. I didn’t get all the images lined up as well as I’d have liked, but I’ll try this process again taking more care later. Overall I was pretty happy with the result for a first attempt. This is based on 9 or 10 images, all shot at ISO100 f8, but with shutter speeds ranging from 1/1000th to 1 Sec. Zoom was constant at 500mm.

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How sharp is that! Really nice, I like it! :encouragement: PJ

Looks like at 1 O'clock and 3 O'clock are a couple flares peeking through. Cool! :winner1:
 
PAUL161 said:
How sharp is that! Really nice, I like it! :encouragement: PJ

Looks like at 1 O'clock and 3 O'clock are a couple flares peeking through. Cool! :winner1:
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Indeed - those are solar prominences. Here's a closeup of one of them:

Prominence.jpg
 
Niiice, sir!
 
That is fantastic Bas!
 
Nicely done sir.
 
That is really neat Basil. We went over to the neighbors back yard deck to watch it. It was one of the neatest things i've seen in my life. We're going to have another on in our neck of the woods in 2022 or 2024(i think) and i'm going to go see that one too.
 
Bob McElwee said:
That is really neat Basil. We went over to the neighbors back yard deck to watch it. It was one of the neatest things i've seen in my life. We're going to have another on in our neck of the woods in 2022 or 2024(i think) and i'm going to go see that one too.
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This was the second total eclipse I've seen in my life. The first was in Feb 1979. I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana and the path of totality came right over our town! For that one, we just got the appropriate glasses and watched. For this one, I was determined to try and photograph it.
 
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