[Leica] 2017 solar eclipse

[hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)]

Last year my son and I drove to nearby Murphy, NC, right on the centerline 
of the August ?America?s Eclipse?. I took a multitude of photos with a Nikon 
D810A and Nikon 80-400 zoom @ 400 mm, using a metallized glass filter except 
during totality. I posted some of those individual images to the Gallery a 
year ago.

I finally got around to putting together a montage that I?m going to make a 
very large print of, probably 2 x 3 feet, for wall mounting somewhere. I 
thought I?d share the result:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Eclipse/EclipsePosterGallery.jpg.html
 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Eclipse/EclipsePosterGallery.jpg.html>

The left-hand image of the totally eclipsed Sun was a long (1/80 sec) 
exposure to capture the faint outer tendrils of the Sun?s corona, and was 
histogram-stretched and contrast-enhanced in Photoshop to visualize as much 
detail as possible. The image on the right was a short (1/1000 sec) exposure 
to capture detail in the inner corona and two magenta prominences on the 
right solar limb.

When I learn more about stacking, I may be able to get a single image that 
shows it all.

Please view large!

C&C welcome.


?howard