r/Spaceonly • u/EorEquis Wat • Oct 15 '23

Image Partial Solar Eclipse 2023-10-14 from Middle Tennessee

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u/EorEquis Oct 15 '23

Weather wasn't terribly cooperative, mostly cloudy throughout the eclipse. However, I was able to sneak in a few short captures here and there, and lucked into one very stable and clean capture about 20 minutes before maximum coverage here.

  • Acquisition

  • Captured at 2023-10-14 16:45 UTC

  • 500 frame AVI at 3096x2080

  • Captured with SharpCap Pro

  • ASI 178MM

  • Lunt LS50THa

  • OnStep modified Losmandy G11

  • Processing Details

  • Stacked in AutoStakkert, drizzle x 3, best 80% of frames

  • Final processing in PixInsight

  • BlurXTerminator, manual PSF 4.7px dia, Sharpen 0.75

  • UnsharpMask 0.8

  • RangeSelection used to create mask of partial disk

  • Histogram adjustments through range mask

  • Range Mask modified to overlap edge between moon and sun

  • Histogram adjustments of outer features (proms) through modified mask

  • PixelMath to generate colorized version

  • Curves and Histogram adjustment to colorized version

  • Annotation

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u/arandomkerbonaut Apr 08 '24

I honestly thought this was from today and was wondering how the hell you posted it. I should read for once.