Jay-qu Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 As I'm sure everyone was aware, on Sunday part of the western coast of the united states got to experience an annular eclipse - which was also my first eclipse :) We drove a few hours north to extend 'annularity' to a full 2 minutes. Giving me just enough time to setup - and do a rough align (need to practice more day aligning :\ ). Fortunately I got lucky and the scope only required a nudge every 10 mins or so. With the eclipse finishing at Sunset, the diminishing light meant I had to extend the exposure from about 1/640 to 1/80 and double the ISO... Unfortunately this means the colours change a little throughout the video, as I haven't got the time to spend tweaking the ~1000 RAWs manually (if anyone knows of program that may help with this please let me know!). Equipment used:Canon 500DSkywatcher 100EDCelestron CG5 mountThousand Oaks type 2+ white light solar filterIntervalometer Processed the RAW's in lightroom, wrote a script for mathematica to align the frames and pieced it together with ffmpeg: Below I have attached my favourite frame, thanks for looking! J iViolet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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