February 26, 1998 from Curacao, Caribbean 4-inch f/6 apo refractor, 600mm focal length, tracked. Fuji Super G 100 print film single long exposure of ~ 2 second (ie. this is not a composite of several different exposures) However, this is a stack of 3 similar exposures averaged stacked to reduce grain and noise, as per deep sky images. Moon disk darkened with dark mask. Sky color altered to blue as that's the way it really does appear -- the sky is not black behind the totally eclipsed Sun; it only appears that way in short exposures for the inner corona. But in longer exposures like this for the outer corona, the deep blue of the sky background is picked up. Corona detail sharpened with High Pass filter (Radial Blur filter seemed to accentuate film grain). Little done to change contrast from original scan so as not to add stepping and isophotal banding.
Total eclipse from Llano National Park, northern Chile, Nov. 3, 1994. Morning sky. Taken with Plaubel Makina 67 camera with Velvia 50 120-format slide film and 80mm fixed lens at f/2.8 about 1/2 sec exposure. Lunar disk darkened in Photoshop to clean up irradiation and haze. Venus is at upper right of Sun.
Total eclipse from Llano National Park, northern Chile, Nov. 3, 1994. Morning sky. Taken with Plaubel Makina 67 camera with Velvia 50 120-format slide film and 80mm fixed lens at f/2.8 at 1/8 sec exposure just after second contact so chromosphere adds red tint to corona. Lunar disk darkened in Photoshop to clean up irradiation and haze. Venus is at upper right of Sun.
