Presentation: Comets and Eclipses: Time-critical Astrophotography
Presented by Martin Ratcliffe
Techniques for photographing eclipses and comets continue to evolve from film to digital. My first decent comet image was of Halley’s Comet in 1986. My first eclipse effort was a not-so-good photograph of the 1980 solar eclipse from Kenya!
In this talk, I’ll highlight some images that are both satisfying to take and meet my personal goals of continuing to improve. I’ll discuss selecting equipment, how to use it in the field, and some lessons learned, with events that may not last long. Along the way, some lovely imagery describing how they were processed will illustrate the talk, including one photo of the annular eclipse over Bryce Canyon in 2023 that made APOD.
Techniques for photographing eclipses and comets continue to evolve from film to digital. My first decent comet image was of Halley’s Comet in 1986. My first eclipse effort was a not-so-good photograph of the 1980 solar eclipse from Kenya!
In this talk, I’ll highlight some images that are both satisfying to take and meet my personal goals of continuing to improve. I’ll discuss selecting equipment, how to use it in the field, and some lessons learned, with events that may not last long. Along the way, some lovely imagery describing how they were processed will illustrate the talk, including one photo of the annular eclipse over Bryce Canyon in 2023 that made APOD.
