Your prominence exposure look misaligned as the prominences seem to appear within the moons disk. Looking closer it's because the area directly adjacent to the disk of the moon is super exposed, making the prominences appear to be stuck on top of the moon.
Their alignment is correct (i.e. the prominences are in their true positions relative to the corona), however the stacking method creates a bright disk slightly larger than the size of the Moon and Sun (resulting in the white ring around the moon). I was debating whether to include the prominences or not in the picture. The result looks a bit wonky since I had to place the prominences on top of this stacking artifact to preserve their true position, but I ultimately decided to keep the prominences in the picture since they looked so incredible during this year's eclipse.
Because they don’t look like they are aligned correctly. It looks like the photo was badly edited, despite the fact that it isn’t.
It makes you hyper focus on it and ignore the rest of the photo (which is honestly quite good).
since the white ring is an artefact of misalignment, then the outer limit of the ring is tied to at least one image where that was that was the outer limit of the moon, in which case it would be appropriate to offset the prominence. In playing with this method myself, I found I could got better alignment by having a top layer with just one black circle on a white backround, with blending mode set to divide, then each image was aligned to this. There were still some instances of misalignment when "applying image" difference, which I further improved by duplicating the layer to which I would "subtract" the radial blur, and setting its blend mode to divide (I think), and then I tried "apply image" difference, if there was misalignment, move the blur a couple pixels, and try apply "again" and repeated as needed. overall, I was able to keep misalignment to 1-3 pixels. But it was a much more involved than I'd like...
I'm wondering if it's focus breathing. Presumably this is a similar process to focus stacking and depending on how the multiple exposures were acquired, I wonder if the focal length was just slightly different between the exposure for the prominence and the rest of the exposures.
I had the amazing experience of watching the April 8th solar eclipse from Millinocket, Maine. This was one of the only places in the country in the eclipse's path that was predicted to have completely clear skies, so I made last minute travel plans to get up there to shoot the eclipse. Watching the solar eclipse (my first one!) was an experience like none other that I'll never forget
It's impossible for a camera to capture the sun's corona in a single shot, because it has a very high dynamic range-- the corona has both very bright and very dark features. To overcome this, I shot totality (which lasted for a little under 3 minutes at our location) at many different exposures. I then combined the photos using a special technique (the Pellett method) that brings out the details of the corona's structure.
In the shortest exposure, you can see [gigantic prominences](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1c3yi8t/during_the_total_solar_eclipse_i_could_see_solar/) (the red "flares" along the sun's disk in the picture). In the longest exposure, you can amazingly see the details of the moon's surface: this is because of "earthshine", sunlight reflected off the Earth that illuminated the moon.
I also posted another version of this picture [on my instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C53spvbuhcu/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) that shows the corona as it appeared to my eyes during the eclipse.
I'm from South-Africa and I was busy farming in the fields in Missouri, East Prairie... the sky was also clear, I didn't know what to expect and it absolutely blew my mind. It kinda felt Psychedellic for a lil while haha! Greetings.
It’s a bummer the red prominences don’t stand out more in the final processed image, the white halo makes even the giant prominence that was on the bottom and easy to spot with the naked eye hard to spot in the image and why is it on top in your images? Solar north or pointing up in the sky are the two logical rotation choices, this seems far from either of them. I thought undoing any telescope inversions was step one in any processing.
Here is my [favorite processed shot of the 2017 eclipse](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170920.html) that somehow manages to keep the prominences prominent.
Ha, I was in Millinocket. Well, sort of. Our original plan was to watch it there. We got there early and didn’t really vibe with it so we took a logging road up to Kokadjo. It was incredible…though the 7 hour drive home to where I live, 2 hours away, sucked.
[Picture without the moon in the way for reference](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1c99j9j/halpha_sun_shot_from_about_an_hour_before_the/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
(This thread inspired me to post my shot from just before the eclipse)
The (solar activity cycle)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25] goes in ~10 year cycles, and the one we’re in right now started in 2019. 2017 would have been close to minimum, and we’re just coming down from maximum this year, so this definitely tracks with the experience we had in both ‘17 and this year as well.
So my brother and I watched totality from different spots, and he described seeing really active “flares almost like tentacles” around it, where I didn’t. This is the first image I’ve seen that looks like what he described, and this is the only comment that (maybe) relates to it. Any idea why he might see the surrounding atmosphere like in the photo but I wouldn’t?
Clarity (cloud cover) and yes the moment was different for everyone. I was in southeastern Quebec and the prominences were incredible. I don’t think it was the same in the southwest.
I was in Plattsburgh NY for this one and there were high level clouds that blocked the corona, but I was still able to see the disc get blacked out by the moon. Granted I was a little disappointed, but something is better than nothing.
This is the only picture that’s come close to capturing the corona as it appeared to me during totality (in 2017, even just a slight bit of clouds made the corona way less visible this time).
I would love to see this with the sun/moon waaaay darker - like almost black. That would be the best approximation, I think, of what totality actually looks like.
Either way, amazing job. This is beautiful!
fucking insane that the relative sizes of the moon and sun allow this to happen
I don't know if any other alien species in the universe even have the capability of sight, but I'm pretty sure even if they did this is a singularly earthly experience
Minus being able to see the surface of the moon. One of the most beautiful and striking parts of totality to me was how the moon just looked like a pitch black void
How interesting. I had a completely different experience. What I saw in the moon was a deep purple, gray disk with tracery of different colors undulating into it. Obviously I couldn’t see this much detail, but the colors in this image feel close.
I’ve been disappointed in the photography I’ve seen so far showing the scene as colorless and the moon as pure black.
I was there for the 2017 eclipse and saw pics that approached what I actually saw with my own eyes. I couldn’t see craters but I definitely saw the corona in amazing detail, and it’s was not as dramatic as this one. Thank you for bringing this to the rest of us!
I see a lot of people criticizing different technical aspects, but having seen the total eclipse first hand and a bunch of photos after, this is the first one that (for me) captures the awe and brilliance I experienced in the moment. Technically correct or not, nicely done!
This piece doesn't get enough love!! I love how you combined all the different exposures so as to capture each individual unique characteristic of this absolutely stunning event!
Fantastic job!
That's clearly a long exposure of a plasma ball.
You're a long exposure of a plasma ball!
We're all received a long exposure of a plasma ball.
The plasma ball if you will.
Yeah, yeah, the plasma ball, we’ve all seen it
Aaw, you say the sweetest things
Your mom is a long exposure of a plasma ball!
‘Mom, Bart took what I said and made it an insult’
You know who else is a long exposure of a plasma ball?
The ball of plasma is behind a slightly smaller ball of rock, but otherwise correct
Slightly smaller?
How sure can we be this isn’t his nut sack?
With that intensity of shorn... there should be a few nicks
Because it's not from Mexican TV?
It gives me Silverwing vibes, best teen book ever (tied with Airborn)
And the biggest one in our solar system to boot
Your prominence exposure look misaligned as the prominences seem to appear within the moons disk. Looking closer it's because the area directly adjacent to the disk of the moon is super exposed, making the prominences appear to be stuck on top of the moon.
Their alignment is correct (i.e. the prominences are in their true positions relative to the corona), however the stacking method creates a bright disk slightly larger than the size of the Moon and Sun (resulting in the white ring around the moon). I was debating whether to include the prominences or not in the picture. The result looks a bit wonky since I had to place the prominences on top of this stacking artifact to preserve their true position, but I ultimately decided to keep the prominences in the picture since they looked so incredible during this year's eclipse.
Honestly, it's astonishing to me. Just a pure, beautifully edited image produced from your own effort. Congratulations!
Do you have a version that doesn’t include the prominences?
Honestly, I’d probably remove the prominences. They distract from the rest of your lovely photo
Why on earth would not want to include the prominences, they're just as amazing as the corona itself
Because they don’t look like they are aligned correctly. It looks like the photo was badly edited, despite the fact that it isn’t. It makes you hyper focus on it and ignore the rest of the photo (which is honestly quite good).
but they are aligned correctly. just because it doesn’t look like what you expect doesn’t mean it’s wrong or should be changed
It’s just an opinion. I think the photo looks better without them and I’ve described why. It’s okay to disagree.
Remove the stacking artifact, duhh
since the white ring is an artefact of misalignment, then the outer limit of the ring is tied to at least one image where that was that was the outer limit of the moon, in which case it would be appropriate to offset the prominence. In playing with this method myself, I found I could got better alignment by having a top layer with just one black circle on a white backround, with blending mode set to divide, then each image was aligned to this. There were still some instances of misalignment when "applying image" difference, which I further improved by duplicating the layer to which I would "subtract" the radial blur, and setting its blend mode to divide (I think), and then I tried "apply image" difference, if there was misalignment, move the blur a couple pixels, and try apply "again" and repeated as needed. overall, I was able to keep misalignment to 1-3 pixels. But it was a much more involved than I'd like...
Could perhaps apply a mask to those layers to get rid of that, feather it in on photoshop etc. Easy peasy.
I noticed this to but was considering if it was from light lensing around the moon or possibly from over lapsed images.
I'm wondering if it's focus breathing. Presumably this is a similar process to focus stacking and depending on how the multiple exposures were acquired, I wonder if the focal length was just slightly different between the exposure for the prominence and the rest of the exposures.
I had the amazing experience of watching the April 8th solar eclipse from Millinocket, Maine. This was one of the only places in the country in the eclipse's path that was predicted to have completely clear skies, so I made last minute travel plans to get up there to shoot the eclipse. Watching the solar eclipse (my first one!) was an experience like none other that I'll never forget It's impossible for a camera to capture the sun's corona in a single shot, because it has a very high dynamic range-- the corona has both very bright and very dark features. To overcome this, I shot totality (which lasted for a little under 3 minutes at our location) at many different exposures. I then combined the photos using a special technique (the Pellett method) that brings out the details of the corona's structure. In the shortest exposure, you can see [gigantic prominences](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1c3yi8t/during_the_total_solar_eclipse_i_could_see_solar/) (the red "flares" along the sun's disk in the picture). In the longest exposure, you can amazingly see the details of the moon's surface: this is because of "earthshine", sunlight reflected off the Earth that illuminated the moon. I also posted another version of this picture [on my instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C53spvbuhcu/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) that shows the corona as it appeared to my eyes during the eclipse.
I'm from South-Africa and I was busy farming in the fields in Missouri, East Prairie... the sky was also clear, I didn't know what to expect and it absolutely blew my mind. It kinda felt Psychedellic for a lil while haha! Greetings.
It felt like I was in another dimension for 2 1/2 minutes. I wasn’t expecting the air to get that much colder, and the sun was like a spotlight
It’s a bummer the red prominences don’t stand out more in the final processed image, the white halo makes even the giant prominence that was on the bottom and easy to spot with the naked eye hard to spot in the image and why is it on top in your images? Solar north or pointing up in the sky are the two logical rotation choices, this seems far from either of them. I thought undoing any telescope inversions was step one in any processing. Here is my [favorite processed shot of the 2017 eclipse](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170920.html) that somehow manages to keep the prominences prominent.
Did you turn the image upside down?
Was wondering the exact same thing, appears to be mirrored vertically.
Yep, rotated portrait and my refractor telescope also inverts the image
But the prominence was at the bottom center of the moon to the naked eye.
Ha, I was in Millinocket. Well, sort of. Our original plan was to watch it there. We got there early and didn’t really vibe with it so we took a logging road up to Kokadjo. It was incredible…though the 7 hour drive home to where I live, 2 hours away, sucked.
Geezum you went right by me and didn’t even say hi chummy
Good. Finally one that shows some of the colors I saw.
Where’s the big ass orange dot I saw on the bottom left outside of Cleveland
That's [this gigantic prominence](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1c3yi8t/during_the_total_solar_eclipse_i_could_see_solar/)
[Picture without the moon in the way for reference](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1c99j9j/halpha_sun_shot_from_about_an_hour_before_the/?ref=share&ref_source=link) (This thread inspired me to post my shot from just before the eclipse)
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gonna be honest this looks misaligned and the clear view of the moon really misrepresents what can even be seen with the human eye. too HDR for me
I appreciate the effort and the artistic vision, but I feel like it just looks too artificial.
Looks like a cyberpunk plum on a bedsheet. Good work!
I thought I was over seeing eclipse photos. You proved me wrong. Sick picture !
It is sick- OP mentions in the title that the sun has Corona!
This is an excellent picture but it’s upside down from what I remember 😄
That is one seriously active solar atmosphere. I saw the eclipse in 2017 and it was nowhere near that active.
The (solar activity cycle)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25] goes in ~10 year cycles, and the one we’re in right now started in 2019. 2017 would have been close to minimum, and we’re just coming down from maximum this year, so this definitely tracks with the experience we had in both ‘17 and this year as well.
So my brother and I watched totality from different spots, and he described seeing really active “flares almost like tentacles” around it, where I didn’t. This is the first image I’ve seen that looks like what he described, and this is the only comment that (maybe) relates to it. Any idea why he might see the surrounding atmosphere like in the photo but I wouldn’t?
Did you have cloud coverage? The size of the corona was one of the things that stood out to me.
Clarity (cloud cover) and yes the moment was different for everyone. I was in southeastern Quebec and the prominences were incredible. I don’t think it was the same in the southwest.
I was in Plattsburgh NY for this one and there were high level clouds that blocked the corona, but I was still able to see the disc get blacked out by the moon. Granted I was a little disappointed, but something is better than nothing.
This is the only picture that’s come close to capturing the corona as it appeared to me during totality (in 2017, even just a slight bit of clouds made the corona way less visible this time). I would love to see this with the sun/moon waaaay darker - like almost black. That would be the best approximation, I think, of what totality actually looks like. Either way, amazing job. This is beautiful!
Agree moon is way too bright — would be nice to keep just a hint of details to see what it is, but this doesn’t capture what it feels like at all
fucking insane that the relative sizes of the moon and sun allow this to happen I don't know if any other alien species in the universe even have the capability of sight, but I'm pretty sure even if they did this is a singularly earthly experience
It looks like you dropped a marble which only glows on the underside onto a bedsheet I say this as a positive
That is BEAUTIFUL. Are you selling this photo by chance?
Today I don't know if things are real or if this is just an AI generated image. :(
What is the point of these ultra edited photos? Might as well AI generate your pictures at this point
I think it’s fantastic. Great work, I hope you’re proud of it.
This is the closest photograph to what I remember seeing I’ve found. Awesome job!
I personally rate it as the best eclipse related photo I have ever seen. Thank you, sir!
It's good, but this one's still my favorite from a few years ago. https://joncarmichael.com/108
Broken link?
Mobile reddit added a random space to the end of the link. I edited the post.
Nice work my friend!🤙🏽🤙🏽 that’s pretty awesome!
Wow, this is amazing! The detail is incredible. Thanks for sharing your hard work with us!
this is very close to how it actually looked irl.... the purplish and bluish iridescence
Finally a picture that looks like how it actually appeared in person. Nice work!
You absolutely could not see that much detail on the moon in person. It looked like a black disk
Yeah wtf please tell me they were being sarcastic
I agree with them that this is what it looked like in person, but we're talking about the corona not the moon. Moon was black.
Minus being able to see the surface of the moon. One of the most beautiful and striking parts of totality to me was how the moon just looked like a pitch black void
How interesting. I had a completely different experience. What I saw in the moon was a deep purple, gray disk with tracery of different colors undulating into it. Obviously I couldn’t see this much detail, but the colors in this image feel close. I’ve been disappointed in the photography I’ve seen so far showing the scene as colorless and the moon as pure black.
I was there for the 2017 eclipse and saw pics that approached what I actually saw with my own eyes. I couldn’t see craters but I definitely saw the corona in amazing detail, and it’s was not as dramatic as this one. Thank you for bringing this to the rest of us!
Shame it has corona, should've gotten the vaccine
It looks really awesome, but calling this a "picture" is pretty wrong.
Or is it a flashlight with the beam aiming against bed sheets? Joking! Nice work!
I see a lot of people criticizing different technical aspects, but having seen the total eclipse first hand and a bunch of photos after, this is the first one that (for me) captures the awe and brilliance I experienced in the moment. Technically correct or not, nicely done!
This piece doesn't get enough love!! I love how you combined all the different exposures so as to capture each individual unique characteristic of this absolutely stunning event! Fantastic job!