This is a composite image combining some of the 689 pictures I took of the full lunar eclipse on the night of Sunday, 20 Jan 2019 from the middle of my backyard in Longmont, Colorado. The time span covered in this image spans from roughly 21:00–23:45.
Gear ¶
- Nikon D610
- Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II
- Nikon Auto Focus-S FX TC-20E III 2x Teleconverter
- iOptron SkyGuider Pro
- Cheap Pangshi intervalometer
Acquisition ¶
I took 50 shots (or so) every 15 minutes for the duration of the eclipse.
Software ¶
I do all image processing with FOSS software (with the unfortunate exception of camera and tracker firmware).
- Debian Buster
- Darktable
- Chromatic aberration
- Lens correction
- Cropping
- Export to 16-bit TIF
- Siril
- Create new FITs sequence from exported TIF
- Planetary Full-Disk registration
- Average stacking with rejection – Windsorized Sigma Clipping
- Wavelets sharpening
- Save final stacked as 16-bit TIF
- GIMP 2.10.8
- Combining images into one composite
- Export as 8-bit JPEG
- Bash
- So much bash.
| EXIF | |
|---|---|
| ExposureTime | 1 |
| FNumber | 5.6 |
| FocalLength | 400.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2019-01-20 22:21:59 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |