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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 818832" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>I had technical issues during my session. I forgot to tighten down the manual adjusters on my star-tracker mount. This caused the mount to wander during the initial partial phase until I discovered the problem as I was removing the solar filter for the totality event. I had the intervalometer taking photos automatically, I never noticed the sun drifting up and partially off screen. So I believed my plan for the phase-series photo everybody makes was ruined. Calling up my meager GIMPing skills, I had to reconstruct 3 images to get a full solar disk on top. Did it by combining with a good photo. Then I put those images into my phase-series. I also don't want to be another guy putting the image together in the same old, boring line.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]404159[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Then I had my D750 in a separate wide-field setup. I thought about doing this with my 20mm lens, made a late choice to use 24-120mm f/4 lens instead. Set about 28mm, but first problem, I aimed poorly. Second problem, after removing the solar filter for totality, I was supposed to snap a few bracketed shots for the base image with total eclipse. Well, I forgot about taking those photos until the second totality ended. Again, using GIMPing skills I have overlaid a total eclipse image and resized smaller, but not to scale. The partial images are all correct. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]404160[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And this one where I tried combining 2 photos for a better contrast on the overexposed lunar disk.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]404158[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 818832, member: 48483"] I had technical issues during my session. I forgot to tighten down the manual adjusters on my star-tracker mount. This caused the mount to wander during the initial partial phase until I discovered the problem as I was removing the solar filter for the totality event. I had the intervalometer taking photos automatically, I never noticed the sun drifting up and partially off screen. So I believed my plan for the phase-series photo everybody makes was ruined. Calling up my meager GIMPing skills, I had to reconstruct 3 images to get a full solar disk on top. Did it by combining with a good photo. Then I put those images into my phase-series. I also don't want to be another guy putting the image together in the same old, boring line. [ATTACH type="full"]404159[/ATTACH] Then I had my D750 in a separate wide-field setup. I thought about doing this with my 20mm lens, made a late choice to use 24-120mm f/4 lens instead. Set about 28mm, but first problem, I aimed poorly. Second problem, after removing the solar filter for totality, I was supposed to snap a few bracketed shots for the base image with total eclipse. Well, I forgot about taking those photos until the second totality ended. Again, using GIMPing skills I have overlaid a total eclipse image and resized smaller, but not to scale. The partial images are all correct. [ATTACH type="full"]404160[/ATTACH] And this one where I tried combining 2 photos for a better contrast on the overexposed lunar disk. [ATTACH type="full"]404158[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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