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Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:38 am
by Wah
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:24 pm
by Montana
These are just truly stunning, each is a magnificent work of art
can I ask how you create these composites?
Funny how a lot of us were all in Oregon together but we all missed each other
Alexandra
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 3:25 pm
by Wah
I used AS!3 to stack the same exposure frames and used Photoshop to combine different exposure stacked frames with layers.
Oregon is too large, days go too fast, we never had enough time to watch everything there in detail...
BTW, forgot to mention about the videos we took during the eclipse:
C3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQukczTDgIc
Fisheye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEpGfwvi0M
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:58 pm
by p_zetner
Beautiful work, Wah.
Love the spectrum .... that beautiful coronal iron line!
Peter.
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:12 pm
by edobosz
Very nice work and processing! The spectrum is really neat.
Ted
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:20 pm
by marktownley
Very very impressive indeed Wah!
Re: Late solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:07 pm
by DanielBrousseau
ASI1600MC-Cool: maybe the future of eclipse photography, replacing the dslr ?
Very nice shots !
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:14 am
by Wah
New corona enhance method result.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:36 am
by Carbon60
Truly amazing images! Wow, wow, wow.
Excellent work.
Stu.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 9:20 am
by Montana
Oh my **********!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexandra
PS Do you give lessons?
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 9:31 am
by Montana
I can't stop looking at this I am transfixed by its detail and beauty
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:44 pm
by rbenton
Fantastic work! Would you share your method of image capture, and of the image processing? I love how the final image looks. Great work.
Randall Benton
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:11 pm
by Wah
Thank you all!
I took my EQ mount, telescopes, laptops and cameras to the eclipse, and the cameras where following the SharpCap Python scripts I prepared to capture different exposure frames (0.001-4s) during the 2 minutes totality.
After coming home, I extracted the frames from SER video file with PIPP, and stacked the same exposure frames with AS!3.
The new corona processing method is actually quite complex:
I have made a Photoshop action with 50 steps to grab the high and mid frequency signals of the different exposure stacked raw files.
Then I combine the mid and high frequency signals into layers and carefully remove artifacts near the edge of overexposed area.
I also combined the different exposure raw frames into one HDR frame and adjust the color and contrast.
Finally I combine the high frequency singals to the HDR frame and fine tune.
My final result is actually not as good as Dr. Miloslav Druckmüller's mathematically processed results.
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Eclipse/index.htm
His program can extract the most fine details from corona without introducing too much noise.
I hope someday he would let his great CORONA program for everyone use.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:30 pm
by Wah
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Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:31 pm
by Wah
Based on Mr. Miloslav Druckmüller's HDR and ACHF method, I processed my images again trying to squeeze all the tiniest details from them, and finally got this final version.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:05 pm
by marktownley
A very impressive set there Wah!
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:02 am
by Montana
Oh my goodness! research grade!!
Alexandra
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:31 am
by Derek Klepp
Really great work Wah make sure you put it in Astronomer of the year photo competition so everyone can view it perhaps also some Astronomy magazines.So much work needs to be seen and appreciated.
Well done.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:22 am
by DSobserver
Certainly one of the best pictures I could saw until now!
Congratulations!!!
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:42 pm
by christian viladrich
Congratulation for this wonderfull set of images. They are beautifully processed.
Do you have a full resolution version of this image ?
download/file.php?id=29184
I am working with the French Astrophysical Institute of Paris, and I would like to check some details I have captured with higher resolution innarrow fields. I've got some images here :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/ec ... a2017.html
Thanks a lot !
Christian Viladrich
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:06 pm
by p_zetner
Amazing what you have accomplished, Wah!
Your latest result is easily as good as Druckmuller’s famous pictures.
Your Photoshop technique seems related to some of the multiresolution wavelet sharpening methods available in some image processing routines. Have you tried any of these?
Cheers.
Peter.
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:50 am
by Wah
p_zetner wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:06 pm
Amazing what you have accomplished, Wah!
Your latest result is easily as good as Druckmuller’s famous pictures.
Your Photoshop technique seems related to some of the multiresolution wavelet sharpening methods available in some image processing routines. Have you tried any of these?
Cheers.
Peter.
I learned the ACHF from Mr. Druckmuller's daughter's thesis.
I struggled to follow their family's stunning images.
His solar eclipse images are still the best of the best!
Re: Wah!'s solar eclipse photos
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:52 am
by Wah
Dear Christian,
WOW!~~!!!~~ Your results are much higher resolution than mine!!!
My telescope was only 80mm aperture, it can never beat a 127mm one