Eclipse images from Palm Cove

[AstroTourist]

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.

[ourkind]

beautiful images! :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

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.

[geoffsims]

Stunning images as usual, Terry.

I particularly love the composition of the wide field shot, nice work!

[AstroTourist]

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

[h0ughy]

excellent results Terry!

[RickS]

Great images, Terry. I especially like the wide angle shot.

[firstlight]

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.

[Larryp]

Great work, Terry

[Shark Bait]

Great images Terry. Wish I was able to be there.

Just to stir the pot, why not send a copy of your images to the Ophthalmologists Association.

[KISA]

Very nice shots Terry.

[Jen]

Nice shots Terry I love love the first one :D

[batema]

Love them Terry.

Mark

[StephenM]

A great collection Terry! I really like that widefield image!

Cheers,
Stephen