Total solar eclipse in the South Pacific Ocean, at sea on the m/s Paul Gauguin in the Northern Cook Islands, July 21, 2009. Taken with Canon 20Da and 28-105mm lens at 60mm. Taken during first diamond ring as totality was beginning but before it was fully dark. Clouds backlit with iridescence from remaining sunlight and corona just beginning to appear -- an amazing play of light and color over the South Pacific.
Total eclipse of the Sun as seen from 27,000 feet altitude, from a site about 140 km east of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Location was approx 69° 7' N Lat and 101° 44' W Long. Aircraft was flying at about 110 knots at heading of 305° true (east to west) perpendicular to the shadow path to put the Sun out the starboard side of the aircraft. Image taken with Sony HD video camera in still frame mode (image is oriignal size). 1/30 sec exposure.
A composite image of the appearance of the Sun and solar corona around the New Moon at the total eclipse of the Sun on March 29, 2006, as seen from the desert of Libya south of Tobruk. This is a stack of 7 exposures, from 1/800th second to 0.8 seconds, merged with Luminosity masks created by ADPPanel+ Pro extension plug-in for Photoshop. Sharpening and coronal streamer enhancement performed with mutlitple applications of successively smaller high pass filters, masked to affect only the corona, not the lunar disk. Adustment layers added for the sky and lunar disk. Original images shot with a Canon 20Da camera at ISO100, through a 66mm aperture apo refractor at f/7, untracked. Each image had to be manually aligned and registered. Re-processed from the original Raw files for my ebook on How to Photograph the Solar Eclipse.
