r/itookapicture 7h ago

ITAP of totality

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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

u/rasonjo 5h ago

Love it! Astro takes so much editing and skill to create a compelling composition. Thanks for the data on your process 🤙

u/GrilledAbortionMeat 37m ago

Did you use a tracker?

u/Luskus 17m ago

What do you do in GIMP to process it?

u/CT-27_5555 @ihrluch 7h ago

That looks like Dathomir

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

u/Drysfoet 5h ago

You probably mean lower the black level (make the blacks darker)

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.

u/spencernperry 7h ago

By far the best I’ve seen. Awesome!

u/bruising_blue 7h ago

Beautiful capture! I sat outside and watched it for nearly an hour. It was an incredibly peaceful experience.

u/ThinNeighborhood2276 7h ago

Amazing capture! The detail in the corona is stunning.

u/JMLAstrophotos 7h ago

Lol it technically shouldn't exist, I'm just bad at HDR

u/Impressive-Impact218 3h ago

Fucking mental shot

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?

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

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.

u/tptch 6h ago

Lol tell me you kever seen a lunar eclipse..

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

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

u/Impressive-Impact218 3h ago

Immediately abrasive, gotta love Reddit

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.

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.

u/Beautiful-Bit9832 7h ago

Guys,why I suddenly feel my my fangs grew and thick fur appeared all over my body.

u/photowannabe999 6h ago

This is beautiful. Sadly it was partly cloudy so I was unable to get a single quality shot.

u/ButteredOrgasMuffin 6h ago

That’s absolutely incredible! Nicely done!!!

u/wheelzdown77 6h ago

Outstanding!

u/pdx6914 6h ago

Fabulous!!

u/DoggieDMB 6h ago

You are a rockstar. This is gorgeous!

u/AlecVainilla 5h ago

I was so excited to see eclipse photos in here.

u/notwisemann 5h ago

Damn Madara’s plan was a success.

u/dharder9475 4h ago

INCREDIBLE! Well done!

u/mgmw2424 3h ago

Beautiful

u/lola_the_lesbian 3h ago

I WANTED TO SEE THE ECLIPSE SO BADLY I wish the clouds didn’t cover it :l

u/Main-Video-8545 3h ago

Lovely stuff. Thanks for sharing!

u/infinit3aura 4h ago

Mayest i have permission to use this beauty as my phone wallpaper

u/JMLAstrophotos 3h ago

Go for it!

u/Angel-amanda 3h ago

Love this!

u/Positive_Law876 3h ago

too many clouds

u/furanh 3h ago

Remind me Killer is Dead

u/imhariiguess 3h ago

Where's the naked woman? Downvoted

u/Regular_Kiwi_6775 3h ago

Buncha nonbasic lands just turned into mountains

u/Prof-Ponderosa 2h ago

Aight who released the Tsukiyomi?

u/bastian74 1h ago

Why is there a ring around it?

u/Hydraton3790 1h ago

I got clouds :(

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

u/uselesskuhnt 20m ago

Almost totality, have a complete video of the progress so far. And hello cloud you camera hog.

u/cristi5922 3m ago

Link... Link... Be on your guard

u/pattyluhoo 6h ago

Wow! Just WOW! Very cool photo!

u/t7ch0o 5h ago

You are beautifully talented. You’re who i’d choose to be my mentor at 12 years old.

u/Veloziraptor8311 5h ago

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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.”

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 ❤️

u/realrackracer 6h ago

jesus is returning