Complete eclipse animation

[Rob_K]

Here's a link to my animation of the eclipse, start to finish. Be warned though, the file is 1MB. I was shooting off a tripod, so the moon rotates slightly - haven't bothered correcting this.

http://tinyurl.com/3y7rcs

Cheers -

[smersh]

Good work - How did you align each frame and what SW did you use to generate the animation?


Michael

[erick]

That's a pretty neat lens, Rob. :thumbsup:

[[1ponders]]

Nicely done Rob :thumbsup:

[Rob_K]

Thanks all!



Michael, I aligned frames by 'stitching' selected images in Photomerge in Photoshop CS2, making sure to tick the 'retain layers' option. Then cropped the merge, and duplicated & saved each layer. Not perfect, but fairly good.

Sorry, don't know what an SW is! :P I did two versions - one gif in Easy GIF Animator (which loses quality) and this one, put together as a wmv in Windows Movie Maker.

Cheers -

[Rob_K]

I think so Erick, although I've only just started to play around with it (photo of set-up att). On eclipse night, I was shooting in small image size (1936x1288 pixels) with the 400D.

I've attached an actual size crop of one image in the sequence to show you what it will do (don't forget to click the image for full size). Mind you, I don't think large image size (3888x2592) would add significantly to the detail, and focus is quite hard to get when the rotten flimsy tripod wobbles everywhere! :P Long exposures are out - all my totality shots were blurred.

Cheers -