Total Solar Eclipse Time Lapse
Axel Mellinger Axel Mellinger
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 Published On Oct 6, 2017

The August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, seen from Jay Em, WY.
(The location was a last-minute choice, as our primary viewing location in Nebraska had an unfavorable weather forecast. Made it to Jay Em an hour before first contact after a 6 hour night drive...)

Cameras:
Canon 6D, attached to a TMB-92 f/5.5 refractor
Canon T2i on Sevenoak 360° Electronic Ball Head
Contour Roam 3

Audio recording: Zoom H1

Exposure times (with Canon 6D):
Partial phase: 1/3200 s through Baader solar filter
Totality: 1/4000 to 1/2 s (3 s @ mid-eclipse)

Processing:
CR2 conversion: Dcraw
Image registration: Octave (2D FFT cross-correlation)
Blending: Enfuse
Contrast/color balance: Rawtherapee
Filtering: Gimp
Blending: ffmpeg/Melt/Kdenlive

The totality images were submitted to the Eclipse Megamovie project: https://eclipsemega.movie/

Music:
"Mountain Sun", Audionautix
"At Launch", Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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