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@42ordinarymice
This is one of my favourite shots of the Sun. A reprocess of footage from last April. I took this photo with a telescope specially modified for solar imaging and a fast frame rate planetary camera.☀️☀️☀️
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
that's so wild! what does your processing roughly look like?
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@42ordinarymice
Thanks! My usual routine is to take around 1000 frames of video, then sort the best 200 frames and stack into a still image. Next I use software called IMPPG for sharpening and manual manipulation of the tone curve. Then into Photoshop for last tweaks - usually levels, more sharpening if needed, and colour.
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
very cool, thanks for sharing! I'm always torn between photo and video when doing lunar stacking. My camera shoots at full frame for RAW images but crops for video. not sure what my procedure should be for the solar eclipse, any thoughts? usually I take a bracketed timelapse for the lunar ones
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@42ordinarymice
I've not done much astrophotography with dSLR so I'm probably not the best person to ask. If I was photographing the eclipse I would probably use my existing set-up for the partial stages (I've done this before for partial eclipses) and then a seperate small telescope or camera for the moment of totality.
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@42ordinarymice
I think I would also be torn about wanting to enjoy the moment of totality with my eyes and not be faffing with my kit so I would want to automate as much as possible. There's a good article here: https://www.space.com/how-to-photograph-a-solar-eclipse
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Yeah that’s my biggest concern, not missing the moment while trying to capture it. Thanks for the tips! I’ll read through the article 😊 2000 $degen
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@42ordinarymice
Thanks! I can't wait to see your shots 🙂
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Me too! Going to practice shooting just the sun for a few days while I think about how to deal with totality. I got the celestron filter, so should be fairly quick to put on and off
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