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The new Patagonia Place 31 storey 278 apartment residential tower under construction on William Jessop Way Princes Dock Liverpool UK. (Core construction at level 12)
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This is a telescopic close-up of the eclipsed Sun at the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, with the Sun's intricate atmosphere, the corona, surrounding the dark silhouetted disk of the Moon.
The corona is marked by swirls, loops and streamers shaped by magnetic fields (note the loops around the pink prominences) and exhibits the classic round, symmetrical, and flower-like shape of a solar maximum corona. Peeking out from behind the right limb of the Moon are several bright prominences, pink from bright hydrogen emission. They were most obvious at this eclipse toward the end of totality as the Moon uncovered them on the western limb of the Sun.
The corona appears silvery-blue in tone, with the faintly coloured round halo likely coming from atmospheric diffraction effects from the high cirrus cloud the Sun was embedded in for this eclipse at my site in Quebec on the east shore of Lac Brome.
Even so, despite the clouds, a few stars shine through: the 5th magnitude double star Zeta Piscium at the 9 o'clock posiiton left of the Sun, and 6th magnitude 88 Piscium at the 8 o'clock position below. I do not see any sign of the SOHO sun-grazing comet in the field.
Celestial north is approximately at top in this orientation.
This version was created by stacking the aligned frames into a smart object, then applying a mean stack mode averaging blend. I have other versions blended with other methods for a different look.
In blending the exposures in this version I accentuated the coronal structures somewhat with sharpening and contrast boosts, to a level that is more than the eye would have seen looking through a telescope. Even so the result still presents a somewhat "natural" and softer looking image, and making the inner corona look brighter than the fainter outer parts of the corona, just as the eye saw it.
This is a stack of 20 exposures, from 1/800 second to 1/2 second, with the Canon R5 at ISO 100 on the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm refractor at f/6 with no reducer or flattener. It was tracking the Sun on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount, recently returned from a long stay in Australia. All exposures taken with auto-bracketing as rapidly as possible in the last part of totality, to minimze alignment issues from the disk of the Moon moving relative to the Sun. An additional single short exposure layered in with a Blend-If adjustment (like a mask) added the pink prominences. Another short exposure masked in added the dark lunar disk, to again produce an image as your (my!) eye saw it, even through a telescope.
I blended the exposures not with HDR software but in Photoshop with a Mean stack mode applied to the stack of 20 exposures packed into a smart object. Sharpening was provided by applications of Adobe Camera Raw as a filter, the Nik Collection Detail Extractor, and High Pass Sharpen filters on the corona, and Topaz Photo AI on the prominence and lunar disk layers. ON1 NoNoise AI 2024 applied to the full base-level stack to reduce the noise that so often still appears in stacked eclipse images.
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