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Thanks Laurie, Rick, David, Paul, Mike, Geoff and Stephen for your kind words and glad you liked the image.
Geoff,
My plan was to capture earthshine and I practiced just after the last new moon on the earthshine beside the thin crescent moon sorting out what exposure was needed and applied this to the eclipse but for some reason I did not capture it. I took some of my longer exposures and stretch the hell out of them and all I got was something like what is in my image :-( In the end I just took the moon part of my image stack and stretched the hell out of it and then blended it on top of the corona to generate what you see in my image. Where I was at Palm Cove there was quite a lot of thin wispy cloud that may have hidden the earthshine from me, I still don't really understand why I cannot see it in my images.
Using the suggested Larsen-Sekanina filter, Fitsworks seems to do a great job selecting the radial nature of the corona and in some ways filters out the cloud. When you apply the Larsen-Sekanina filter you specify the centre of the sun so it knows the orientation of the radial features.
I see David (h0ughy) has captured the earthshine very well, I'll have to ask him what he did. He seems to have a *lot* of data in his image
Note that I followed the tutorial at your link using the "combine images with manual offset" option to stack my images. In addition I applied some wavelet filtering/sharpening to the mask before multiplying with the image stack.
BTW Nice time lapse Geoff, it is great to see the shadow and you can see the camera working away!
Mark
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