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.
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 for totality, 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. Single exposures for the 2nd and 3rd Contact diamond rings and prominences layered in as well. These are 1/800th second exposures. 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.
Total Solar Eclipse from Libya, March 29, 2006. Taken with Canon 20Da DSLR camera, and William Optics 66mm triplet Apo refractor (f/6) at ISO100. Composite of short 1/500-sec diamond ring exposures and longer 0.3 sec mid-totality exposure. Blue sky coloration added in Photoshop.
