Eclipse over the rock Version 2

[Peter Ward]

I often find it takes me a while to process an image so it finally looks right...

Tinkered a bit here and a bit there with levels, colour balance, but am reasonably happy with this, albeit posted before, image..now in HD format :)

The link is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery104.html)

[multiweb]

Great colors. Couple of questions: the caption says 14mm lens. Did you crop and stitch two panels or crop one single panel?

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc. There are five panels (!!) the image covers about 300 degrees.

Yes, the stitch was problematic as the dammed stars kept moving :)

[multiweb]

Holy molly! 5? :eyepop: Must have been quite a challenge to match the sky with the rock and foreground at the same time. I get a lot of funky stars at 18mm on the edges and it's just very hard to stitch anything at all at that FL. Bring on the warp tools I say. :P

[DavidTrap]

The colours are great Peter.

How long were the subs - there seems to be quite a bit of movement of the stars for 14mm focal length.

DT

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Dave. 60 seconds each...which equitated to 120 seconds between exposures (also problematic) as the camera was taking auto-darks.