My First Eclipse Animaiton with SolEx

[NM_mike]

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Skies were spectacular for this morning's annular eclipse. I thought to try a few scans to see what would happen and was quite surprised to find the SHG technique suitable for this application. While I was trying to pay attention using my MK1 eyeball, I grabbed a scan every few minutes and found that I captured the complete duration. Of course my wife made sure that I was present during the event

This was with SolEx attached to my AT72EDII refractor. I purposefully oversampled slighty finding the computed x-y ratio~0.93. I then utilized this value with the entire sequence to get round Suns. ImPPG was used for alignment and final resizing in Gimp before the animation was created with pipp.

There were some artifacts but this was really exciting nonetheless.

I think I may pack an SHG and head to Texas next Spring for the Total eclispe in April.

[DeepSolar64]

WoW, Mike, this is really nice. The SHG coupled with the AT72EDII did very well.

Awesome job!!

James

[Peterm]

So very good!

[highfnum]

very cool
you maybe the first

[EricF]

Right on Mike. Love it!


Eric.

[Montana]

Woww!!!! this is amazing well done!!

Alexandra

[nicspenceryork]

Wow! Love this! Fantastic eye catching presentation of the annular eclipse because of the equipment you chose and your lovely processing👌

[rsfoto]

Hi,

Superb animation a idea. Something different

Well done

[marktownley]

Incredible result!