My first attempt at Solar photography, not ideal to kick off on the day but was a lot of fun. Some shots of totality and an attempt at a composition, it was so hard with my poor laptop taking major strain with the composition in Photoshop!
Long drive from Perth but worth every single second and just awe inspiring and magical!
The totality shots are stacked in photoshop from a few salvageable exposures, I took a whole bunch of bracketed exposures but of course not all turned out right.
Taken with a ASI533MC Pro and Asiair
Skywatcher 80ED
Celestron AVX Mount
Mark, these are wonderful shots. You've done your research on techniques to achieve a commendable result from a first attempt at Solar Photography. It must have been an amazing experience and what a record you now have of the event. Great stuff!
Thanks everyone, yep a lot of research, but funny enough not much info out there on shooting totality with an Astro cam on a telescope! Lots around with a DLSR and camera lens.
I did a lot of test shots on the morning of the eclipse having only picked up the Solar filter on the Saturday before the eclipse and then of course clouds rolled in so couldn’t properly test before driving up to Exmouth.Talk about leaving it to the last minute and not being very well prepared!
Although I was up at 4 in the morning on the day to do polar alignment and get my focus perfect��, not everyone appreciated the mount slewing all over the place at that time but oh well it doesn’t come around all that often I thought.
Was truely an amazing experience, I’m definitely up for 2028. I have learnt some lessons so will be more prepared, will be much shorter bracketed exposures and I’ll look the timing of when I take what length exposures and then of course we will have 5 minutes of totality which will help.
