Eclipse Practice Aug 27th

[Ingo]

This was taken with my D50 @ around 280mm @ F6 ISO200

50 x 1/400s Light
4 x 1/400s Dark

Maybe I need more darks? This picture is a full crop downsized maybe 100 pixels from the full crop. It looks pretty good though & I should be good for the eclipse if the Sun isn't up by then. Maybe I can still get it.

[iceman]

Nice image Ingo. On this LCD the area around Tycho is overexposed though. Was this through post-processing (enhancing contrast)?
Either way, check your histogram and ensure you don't clip either end.

[Ingo]

Yeah, the bottom is overexposed. I have no clue why but it appears I'd have to do some sort of HDR to get it correctly exposed? I didn't touch contrast & I tried to mess with curves a bit but it did nothing to the bottom.

Thanks :thumbsup:

Hopefully it won't be too early in the morning or near moonset. It'd be my first eclipse I'd see. The last one that was very visible here... it was cloudy.