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Rob Pettengill
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
04/08/2024
01:52 pm

Equipment Details:

Williams Optics RedCat 250/51mm, Sony a6300 mirrorless camera

Post-processing Details:

HDR composite stacked and processed in Photoshop with radial unsharp masking to deal with the high thin clouds at totality.

Image Details:

With many clouds in the forecast for central Texas, we drove up to Little Rock to photograph the eclipse. We set up on a street corner at my son's place and soon gathered about a dozen people from the neighborhood to share the experience. I was able to capture close-up images of the prominences and make a time lapse video from first to last contact. Sadly the weather had no respect for our 8 hour drive and some high thin clouds passed by during totality. Fortunately a radial version of unsharp masking restored the corona detail nicely and I was able to preserve the deep twilight blue of the sky.

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