International Space Station Solar transit – a nice reprocess

[Dennis]

Hello,

On June 24th 2011 I managed to record a solar transit of the ISS first posted here, for all the detailed information (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=77338).

Since then my Photoshop skills have improved and with all the dreary rain, I have had time to exercise my newly acquired processing skills.:)

So, here is a full solar disc, in glorious technicolour, depicting what this event might have looked like if my ‘scope had a wider field of view.;)

Cheers

Dennis

[John Hothersall]

Top result as usuall with nice sharp image and breathtaking granulation on solar surface.

John.

[von Tom]

Very nice detail Dennis :)

Tom

[h0ughy]

wonderful work Dennis, your skills are legendary

[sheeny]

What Dave said.:thumbsup:

Al.

[trent_julie]

Nice one!
I hope to achieve this style of image myself some time in the future, well done

Trent

[Kevnool]

I love it.
Great work Dennis.

Cheers

[strongmanmike]

This is excellent Dennis and a great way to present it too with the two circles.

The only thing is, personally I find image details pasted onto the actual image become a distraction. It seems to have become convention for solar system close ups but for me it is a more pleasing experience to have the image details completely separate from the image, just my taste I guess.... of course maybe I am just warpped too :nerd: :P

Mike

[Shiraz]

straight out excellent Dennis. Regards Ray

[Quark]

Top Stuff Dennis, work of the highest order indeed and love the presentation. You are a legend buddy.

Reckon this would stand up as a standout image on any astro forum around the world.

Regards
Trevor

[iceman]

Awesome image Dennis, just fantastic.

[Matt Wastell]

A great repro!
Hey Dennis - I noticed you imaged at Foreshore Park in Cleveland. I did some comet Lovejoy from GJ Walter Park, Cleveland. I think I will do the Venus transit from there too (I just have to work out to power my laptop for imaging).
Any plans for the transit?

[steve000]

damn fine image.. its really great DSLR's with HD video abilitys...

[multiweb]

The details on the solar panels outline is really fine. Great repro. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Thanks for taking a 2nd look at this image and your nice messages – I appreciate them.:)

@Mike the strongest of strongmen, the inclusion of the inset caused me a real dilemma for the very reasons you wrote of. I would have preferred a full, uninterrupted solar disc showing the stark beauty of this event, but I also wanted to show the full-res detail and keep the image scale to a 1024 pix image.

I did reduce the solar disc and placed the text and full-res inset in a column to the side, but to my eye, with the smaller solar disc, it did not look as visually attractive as the larger image with the inset breaking into the solar disc.:shrug:

Cheers

Dennis

[strongmanmike]

Hey it's no biggy, it is a fantastic image and having the zoomed version in the little circle looks perfect. The image details pasted onto the image is ok too really (...like my recent animal comparisons :lol: ) but I recon as a main image, to be appreciated, it would look better without them, the words are not necessary and the image would look more graceful without them in my opinion. They kinda make it look like a technical drawing (which is also fine if that's what you like) the subject should speak for itself (does that sound too arty farty :painting: :question:). Doing this however seems to be convention now with many solar system images but is rarely seen in deep sky or skyscape work. It is probably just convention.

Do you have a version without the words?

Mike

[Lester]

Fantastic image Dennis, thanks for the view.

All the best.

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks for the redo Dennis that inset is superb.As for this weather I did get a glimpse of Sun this morning about 5 seconds worth.
Derek