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  • I honestly thought this was from today and was wondering how the hell you posted it. I should read for once.

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  • Weather wasn't terribly cooperative, mostly cloudy throughout the eclipse. However, I was able to sneak in a few short captures here and there, and lucked into one very stable and clean capture about 20 minutes before maximum coverage here.

    • Acquisition

      • Captured at 2023-10-14 16:45 UTC
      • 500 frame AVI at 3096x2080
      • Captured with SharpCap Pro
      • ASI 178MM
      • Lunt LS50THa
      • OnStep modified Losmandy G11

    • Processing Details

      • Stacked in AutoStakkert, drizzle x 3, best 80% of frames
      • Final processing in PixInsight
      • BlurXTerminator, manual PSF 4.7px dia, Sharpen 0.75
      • UnsharpMask 0.8
      • RangeSelection used to create mask of partial disk
      • Histogram adjustments through range mask
      • Range Mask modified to overlap edge between moon and sun
      • Histogram adjustments of outer features (proms) through modified mask
      • PixelMath to generate colorized version
      • Curves and Histogram adjustment to colorized version
      • Annotation
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