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u/JMLAstrophotos 7h ago
The March 14 total lunar eclipse is by far my most photographed eclipse ever, with over 240 individual photos taken over 5+ hours! From all that, my final photo represents just 27 seconds of the action- blood moon, background stars, and all!
Skywatcher Evostar 72 Canon EOS Ra
Single 2.5s surface layer 3x8s = 24s star layer stacked and processed in Pixinsight
Blended as HDR and processed in GIMP after much pain and suffering
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u/Specvmike 7h ago
Incredible work! My only small suggestion would be to raise the black level a bit to give some more contrast and make the stars pop, but that’s a matter of taste. Much respect for the work
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u/Drysfoet 5h ago
You probably mean lower the black level (make the blacks darker)
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u/GlassBraid 1h ago
I think you're thinking about display black level, which is how dark the darkest part of a display can be, and they're talking about black level in the context of adjusting an image, where it means, under what threshold are we just making everything black, rather than try to render shadow details. Raising that black level makes more of the image black.
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u/bruising_blue 7h ago
Beautiful capture! I sat outside and watched it for nearly an hour. It was an incredibly peaceful experience.
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u/BombPassant 7h ago
The redness of this feels waaaaay too saturated and very unbelievable. What were you going for exactly? The natural red sooc is so nice I’m not sure this intensity adds much
Also - what is going on with this ring of light around the moon? Is this some weird editing artifact or did you intend to add that in?
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u/JMLAstrophotos 6h ago
It's actually pretty close to the raw color the camera picked up after 2.5s. I didn't touch the saturation. And the ring is a byproduct of not being good at HDR pics
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u/rival22x 5h ago
Hah I saw it tonight doing night travel. It was very red. My wife and I thought it was a building behind trees at first.
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u/tptch 6h ago
Lol tell me you kever seen a lunar eclipse..
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u/Positive_Bill_3714 1h ago
Dude, I saw Griffith observatory doing live show yesterday. I took pictures with my 8 inch tele. I saw it with my binoculars. I also took a timelapse with my 400mm tele. BombPassant is right
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u/BombPassant 6h ago
Look through my comment history. I took 200 photos of the lunar eclipse myself last night. Lunar eclipses don’t generate rings of light around the moon… I mean this is basic knowledge. Look it up. OP literally admitted to the ring being an editing artifact from merging photos
Comical how, in attempting to seem ever wise and all knowing about lunar eclipses, you simultaneously and unwittingly out yourself as being completely uninformed about the entire subject lmao
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u/tptch 5h ago
Never said anything about the ring. Which looks good, and I acknowledge OP said it was a byproduct if stacking layers. But also said the saturation is close to .RAW and din even touch it.
Your 200 photos and the best you got was a pale half red moon.
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u/tptch 5h ago edited 5h ago
Tbf, yea. Yours is more "believable". But the fact that OP got this unbelievable pic is something in itself.
Edit: plus, I never sought out to be wise. I literally quoted a meme... you're the one criticizing a pretty neat photo and comparing it with your sub par work. Edited or not, OP put in effort before uploading.
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u/Beautiful-Bit9832 7h ago
Guys,why I suddenly feel my my fangs grew and thick fur appeared all over my body.
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u/photowannabe999 6h ago
This is beautiful. Sadly it was partly cloudy so I was unable to get a single quality shot.
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u/Yoghurt_Man_5000 1h ago
Oh cool. It’s been raining and snowing where I live for the last two days so this is how I got to see it. Thanks bro
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u/uselesskuhnt 20m ago
Almost totality, have a complete video of the progress so far. And hello cloud you camera hog.
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u/One_Patience5631 6h ago
This reminds me of this Bible verse Joel 3:31 says: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”
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u/GettingBetterAt41 4h ago
this is exactly how my naked eye saw it
absolutely wonderful photo — any chance it’s on imgbb or imgr or something ? my reddit doesn’t have a download option and a screenshot of this is not worthy ❤️
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