All About Astro.com
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Astro Gallery
  • Astro Gear
    • Software Bisque Mounts
  • Learning
    • How to Learn Astrophotography
    • A Telescope Buyer's Guide
    • Space is a Landscape
    • Developing a Plan for Our Images
    • Best Data Acquisition Practices
    • The Task of Image Processing
    • Where to Setup Your Telescope
    • Do Dark Skies Really Matter?
    • Astronomy and the Weather
    • Globular Clusters
    • Building a Roll-Off Roof Observatory
    • Choosing a 35mm film camera
    • Great American Solar Eclipse 2024
  • About Me
  • Jay's Slide Rules
    • All the Rules
    • My Favorite Slide Rules
    • Pickett >
      • Pickett N600-ES
      • Pickett N4-T
    • All About K&E Rules
    • The Educational Value of Slide Rules
Picture

Full Lunar Eclipse - April 15, 2014

Various presentations of all eclipse phases

Location: Grapevine, Texas
Temperature: 40 degrees F
Date: April 15, 2014
Scope: 6" Tak TOA-150 apochromatic refractor
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME
Cameras: Canon T2i DSLR and SBIG STL-11000M
Exposure Info: Various shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 3.2 seconds
DSLR ISO: Various ISOs from 200 to 800

Processing: Debayer, Multiscale Median Transform, Histogram Transform, Local Histogram Enhancement, ACDNR, and 16-bit TIFF conversion in PixInsight.   Saturation, Level/Curves, noise removal (Noel Carboni actions), rotation, and compositing in Photoshop CS6.





Picture

Presentation 2 - Eclipse Cycle Timeline

About this Image...

This is the second presentation of the data taken during the eclipse showing the major stages of the cycle and the timeline of its happenings.

All images taken during this eclipse are with a Canon T2i DSLR and Tak TOA-150 refractor, except for the full moon shot taken just prior to the start of the eclipse with an SBIG STL-11000m astro camera.

Home

Gallery

Contact

Picture

Terms of Use

All images and content on www.allaboutastro.com
​are copyright by Jay Ballauer. 
​Permission for use and ​proper credit is required. 
© COPYRIGHT 2003 - 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.