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Originally Posted by multiweb
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.
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.
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  |
looking forward to seeing your results marc! sounds like you have put a lot of effort in - probably a good thing you didn't go with 5 seconds this time around! 50 manual is still a lot, i'm sure the creative stretching will string us along
i'm not familiar with pixinsight, but it will get a run once the computer is up and running properly.
with the amount of cloud in the middle probably not worth me going overboard on tweaking the timelapse. if it were clear all the way through definitely. fingers are crossed for the next one, conditions weren't well suited here but next time, polar aligning the night before would be a winning option
that would take care of most of the drift.
I'm happy with the backyard eos and magic lantern combo, and recommend it for people looking at doing the same next time round, so easy to adjust with BY eos saving/previewing the files while ML does its intervalometer magic, and tweaking exposure between subs with the manual buttons.