The 12" data has been tough to process. The clouds and haze have precluded batch processing to a large extent in both AS!4 and in Wavesharp. Even so, there are still some stacking artifacts on a couple of the images with clouds or haze present, even with manual processing of individual frames. Some of the better frames I'll be working on today. There have been lots of lessons learned but I'm not totally disappointed in the results. For August 2045 if I travel with a scope I'll try and be less mesmerized by the spectacular event that is a total eclipse and remember to bracket exposures during totality to better bring out the corona but also to not blow out the prominence eruptions in others. Was sure a lot of fun to work from the backyard and on the plus side running a continuous video capture through the entirety of totality left me time to just stand in awe at what must be one of the greatest displays the sky offers to the naked eye.
Here is a highly compressed GIF as a pointer.
Here is the link to a 1200px square apng in the gallery: https://www.cloudyni...07_13621024.png
I noticed I got the return of the Sun after totality with the filter back in place is out of position relative to the rest of the frames.
Also of note, I started the ser capture and left it run while removing the solar filter. This of course drove Firecapture a bit crazy but using PIPP I generated .tif images of each frame in the video and then stacked clusters of 150 frame in AS!4 of the areas of interest. Unfortunately, the excessive exposure levels precluded teasing out Baliley's beads from ether end of totality (I've not given up yet but the area is pretty blown out.)
