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Unfortunately Oregon isn't in the middle of the Pacific.

Hi Russ, There's nothing on the OSP pages yet.  They announced this at a planning meeting. Several of us will be in Madras too & had been planning to go over Thursday morning but are revisiting plan. ...

Jerry, this is wonderful, thanks. Something I've been inquiring about among regional astro clubs are close-up still images from an eclipse.  Taking a run at processing these could cause some ...

One last test. The moire issue seems to become strongest for blown out highlights. But post processing a composite close-up of totality will discard or mask out those parts of images. Though HDR ...

Your question & many like it are in this eBook along with other options, & choice for all aspects including post processing stills, time lapses & video.  It is hands down the best reference out there.

FYI OSP has recently suggested those traveling into the path of totality will need to leave home by Tue to make it to their site by Monday! Few people have made such lengthy accommodation ...

Interesting, thanks for the info.  Seems like every camera maker would want to release software for this eclipse.  It would sell lots of lenses!

Did some more tests - last night shot the near full moon & saw the same artifacts I've seen before on the horizontal & vertical edges of the moon. This is a huge pixel peep but the faint ...

Have some experience to offer.  I believe in belt & spenders approach for an eclipse.  So I prepare for having to use the camera w/o Oly Capture.  Would be helpful for others to chime in w/ their ...

Can't in one go.  You have to select the center SS for each of 4 5x bracketed sets.  I looked for some kind of macro app that could automate it but its so easy to do manually.  I'm not willing to ...

Good question Dan. First not all cameras can shoot sequential w/ full electronic shutter.  From a vibration perspective, that's a big advantage - but several Olys can do that.  Our hope was that ...

Nice images Peter. And thanks for the reminder for everyone to really soak up the view, its incredible. This will be my 3rd eclipse. I'll have a great location just a few miles from center line w/ ...

Just to make sure I hadn't missed something in Nebulosity, I did some more stacking.  Did stacks w/ best & worst grades from Neb, used sigma clipped after alignment, stacks using a mountain on the ...

For the benefit of other readers, must disagree here & so do many experienced eclipse chasers. The crescent moon in deep twilight is the only object that comes close to presenting the range of ...

Thanks much! Looking forward to see your results. Yes & no.  I found a S&T article on using HDR for the eclipse (can't find it now) by their image processing editor. BTW, Alan Dyer's eBook on ...

Hi Dale, Would be helpful if you provide some more info - lens & FL, time span of the images you are trying to stack, one of the images your working with. If you are using a wide angle ...

Very nice Rudi.  Did you figure out what was causing problems in your earlier moon shot that had double imaging in spots?

It's taken a number of trials to figure this out and reach a definitive conclusion. All things equal stacking lots of shorter exposures gives the same S/N for an astro image as one long exposure. ...

Since the focus seems to be off just a bit, I couldn't conclude you have a bad copy. Rather it seems your copy has about as much astigmatism as reported in the review. If you nailed the focus & ...

Would be helpful if you could say a bit more about what your photo goal is. Are you proposing to use the Gigapan as an alternative to an equatorial mount or are you wanting to make a pano of some ...