Comments | fivemack: Thoughts on taking photos of eclipses

fivemack

Thoughts on taking photos of eclipses

Sep 28, 2015 10:41

The partially- and totally-eclipsed moons do not in any useful respect resemble a duck. Which is a pity, since I know that I have the kit to take quite good pictures of ducks.

( Photos below may be a bit wide for your friends-page )

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anonymous September 29 2015, 18:14:48 UTC

Time to dig out the deconvolution software. Your image is ridiculously over-sampled given that the optical resolution is likely to be around an arcsec and the atmospheric seeing from Cambridge city won't be much better than several arc-sec when averaged over two seconds. You should be able to double the resolution at least by assuming the PDF is a uniform circular disk of an experimentally determined diameter. Motion blur can also be removed, but that's a bit trickier.

If you want to play at astrophotography, my kit could be made available. It's a 1016mm f/4 telephoto lens.

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htfb October 2 2015, 10:58:28 UTC

The obvious solution is to compromise between your duck-optimised kit and astronomical interests, and focus on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

anonymous October 7 2015, 19:10:30 UTC

Tom, Ben brother here.
If you want trips to darkest norf this winter coming, you only have to say. If I resign my licence, this will make things tricky- get a bus! why not? all hours.

it could have been worse- it could have been THE MIDDLE of a bigger rave , from last winter, but... try to improve on that performance.

Love, from Ben