Although I was distracted by many things during this eclipse I did manage to captutre some images:
Palm Cove beach. I like the feel of this image. HDR Composite of two images. Canon 350D with 10 - 22mm @17mm, 1/8sec and 1/2sec @ 800ISO. Combined using Photomatix and Photoshop.
Corona Composite. This needs more tweaks. I have been REALLY impressed with the coronal composites posted in this section although many do not include prominences/chromosphere.
Televue 76mm (480mm FL, F6.3) Six exposures combined 1/8s, 1/30s and 1/125s all @ 400ISO; 1/250s @ 200ISO; 1/500s and 1/2000s @100 ISO. Combined in Photoshop using layer masks with hi pass filtering applied.
I was lucky to get this. Due to other commitments, I had no time to prepare for eclipse imaging and had to use the Eclipse Orchestrator script that I used at the 2010 eclipse which included a coronal sequence. I appear to have caught a sliver of cloud in the LHS of the image which seems to have been enhanced by the processing - it is visible in the original images.
Diamond Ring. Single image Televue 76mm (480mm FL, F6.3) 1/4000s @ 100ISO. I really like the prominences on this one.
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Nice work Terry. Did you find that some of your images had some degree of high cloud? I was just down the beach from you but found there was plenty of high cloud which prevented lunar detail from being visible.
Thanks, Paul.
There seems to have been high cloud in the second half of totality, which is when the coronal sequence was done.
You need a really clear sky to extract earthshine otherwise the cloud detail swamps the lunar detail. On the 2010 eclipse I tried a set of deep images to stack to capture the earthshine but all I got was high cloud. I have only been able to extract good lunar detail on really clear eclipses.
Terry
Great shots Terry. I agree with the others, the wide field is superb. Sorry we didn't get a chance to catch up in the north, but so much to do, places to go.
