Siberian delight

ayiomamitis wrote: www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2008-08-01c.htm . I would like to dedicate this result to my Irish friends (and Seanie) who could not make it to the eclipse for one reason or another.[/quote]

Thanks Anthony. These spectacular images are the next best thing to being there!

ayiomamitis wrote:

www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2008-08-01c.htm . I would like to dedicate this result to my Irish friends (and Seanie) who could not make it to the eclipse for one reason or another.

Thanks Anto for sharing! Plain and simple, work (at the moment) was too important for me to leave behind. However, I am looking towards next year already (an average of at least 6 minutes totality!). You captured some excellent shots once again too. Well done!

Seanie.

Paul Tipper wrote:

Beautiful picture, Anthony - congratulation to you and to all who saw the 2008 eclipse from Siberia and China.

One question - what's the bright body that appears to the right of the sun in the image - Mercury perhaps?

Glad you like 'em Paul!

As for the "hot pixel" to the right of the eclipsed sun, it is actually a star (Asellus Australis (Delta Cancri)). This just goes to show you how careful one must be when processing images, for it would have been easy to take this point of light as a processing artifact or hot pixel and removed it within PS.

albertw wrote:

ayiomamitis wrote: www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2008-08-01c.htm . I would like to dedicate this result to my Irish friends (and Seanie) who could not make it to the eclipse for one reason or another.

Thanks Anthony. These spectacular images are the next best thing to being there![/quote]

Hi Al,

For an astrophotographer, there is no greater satisfaction that having nice results from a one-time event and where there is no opportunity to correct a mistake. It also justifies the expense of getting there, the great anxiety surrounding the weather and the very tiring 14-hr stopover in Moscow upon our return.

Seanie Morris wrote:

ayiomamitis wrote:

www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2008-08-01c.htm . I would like to dedicate this result to my Irish friends (and Seanie) who could not make it to the eclipse for one reason or another.

Thanks Anto for sharing! Plain and simple, work (at the moment) was too important for me to leave behind. However, I am looking towards next year already (an average of at least 6 minutes totality!). You captured some excellent shots once again too. Well done!

Seanie.

Hi Seanie,

Glad to learn of your approval.

Fingers crossed you can make it over next year so that we can share a "few" beers!

ayiomamitis wrote:

Paul Tipper wrote:

Beautiful picture, Anthony - congratulation to you and to all who saw the 2008 eclipse from Siberia and China.

One question - what's the bright body that appears to the right of the sun in the image - Mercury perhaps?

Glad you like 'em Paul!

As for the "hot pixel" to the right of the eclipsed sun, it is actually a star (Asellus Australis (Delta Cancri)). This just goes to show you how careful one must be when processing images, for it would have been easy to take this point of light as a processing artifact or hot pixel and removed it within PS.

Yea, I have the star in my images also.