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DaleBerlin wrote:
I just saw this, and wow, you did a wonderful job here Dave. Very very fine work on the corona, and the changing cloud patterns really gives character and "sense of time" to the progression. Its a moot point now, but I like your choice of #1. I am curious though, why didn't you keep the direction of the moon constant throughout the progression?
Thanks for the kind words Dale! I'm glad you commented on the clouds as I was wondering if people would see them as a plus by adding realism and some drama. I have a few hundred different ones to choose from, ok, maybe not that many, but I chose the ones I thought told the story best from that day. It was a close call for sure.
Direction of the moon constant? I'm not sure what you mean. These were all taken over the course of 3 hours and are shown as they actually occurred. The only thing I didn't do was angle them across the frame to simulate the actual trajectory path.
Now that I think about it, maybe you're referring to why my partials seem to be perfectly adjacent from each other?
The answer to that is because they were from my location in the US. You have probably seen others from out west where it occurred earlier in the day and the sun/moons path were more diagonal. Here on the east coast the ecliptic path was almost perfectly horizontal which made me happy. Even the Sun's corona details from it's poles changed from west coast to east coast where mine are almost straight up and down. Cool stuff for sure.
I'm still working on my final totality shot.
I just hope I can remember 1/3 of the PS stuff I have learned from this project.
Dave
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