Nathan Eaton Jr
Dallas, Texas, USA
10/14/2023
11:52 am

Equipment Details:

Sky Watcher EvoStar 72ED Refractor
Sky Watcher 0.85 Flattener/Reducer
Sigma 2X Teleconverter
DeepSkyDad AF3 Autofocuser
Baader Solar Film Filter
Nikon D750 DSLR
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2 Tracker
Radian Carbon Fiber Tripod

Post-processing Details:

Images processed in Lightroom Classic to adjust exposure, contrast, white balance
Image exposure normalized using LRTimelapse / Lightroom Classic (these were part of larger sequence for timelapse)
Images combined in composite image using Photoshop
Labels added in Photoshop

Image Details:

Unable to make it to a spot on the path of the annular eclipse today to view the Ring of Fire, I captured this timelapse of the partial eclipse view from my backyard.

What's great about successfully capturing this eclipse that I wasn't even home! Since our granddaughter Harper was showing her rabbit at the State Fair of Texas stock show today, I had the equipment set up to run automatically. Thankfully, I got home in late afternoon to find that months of preparation and practice paid off!

These images were captured in a sequence taking a shot ever 30 seconds for the entire duration of the eclipse, shooting on a tracker. The full set of images were used to create a timelapse video. I selected this set from about every half-hour of the eclipse (apart from start and end times) to use to create this composite and a similar image without the labels.

Posted 
January 20, 2019
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