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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
yes - way pinker than everyone else's here - that is actually straight out of the camera (astro mod) - I've just built a new computer and need to shift all my astro apps across yet. Am hoping a simple RGB align will produce the nice copper colour everyone else has - although that won't help the timelapse.
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Mine turned out pink as well. What I did is tweak the white balance on the bright moon uneclipsed until I got the natural greyish color and apply it to all the subs equally. It seems to work.
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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
I tried the anti-shake functions in windows movie maker last night and it made it worse - possible due to the cloud sections it is very jittery or it tried to align the darker parts rather than the moon.
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I have successfully registered about 800 subs with the FFT script in PixInsight. I have about 50 odd shots that I'll have to tweak manually.
I had a clear sequence with no clouds and it still jitters in places. When the bright crescent gets thinner or brighter and also during totality because there are stars moving in the background so sometime the scripts registers on the stars rather than the lunar disc.
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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
The frame rate is high enough that I could slow it down more and it would still be smooth but wanted the path of the shadow to stand out, it is one image per 6 seconds. I was hooked up to Backyard EOS but had magic lantern controlling the camera. the great thing about that is that it is very easy to change the exposure settings between shots.
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I did 5s exposure intervals for the Saturn occultation and had over 1000 subs to play with so it certainly makes for a smooth motion and you can slow it down to 15fps and still keep the fluidity. This time I shot every 20s and kept changing the ISO. So a lot less frames to play with. During totality I was shooting 5s subs. I wasn't sure how long I'd need so that's why I made a choice of 20s intervals. I ended up with 800 subs or so. Gives me 30s of video if I stretch it. Time for a bit of creative stretching and fading
