Totality Pictures
All photographs were taken using Fuji Provia 100F slide film.
They were taken through a Sky-Watcher 80mm f/5 telescope
and those taken at f/15 had an additional Vivitar 3x tele-converter
added between the telescope and the camera back.
2nd Contact
Diamond Ring detail
Prominences
Inner Corona
3rd Contact
Diamond Ring
f/15, 1/250 sec.
f/5, 1/1000 sec.
f/15, 1/500 sec.
Inner Corona
Middle Corona
Outer Corona
f/5, 1/250 sec.
f/5, 1/15 sec.
f/5, 1/2 sec.
"Natural Eclipse"
Composite of 11 digitally-added corona images plus an unsharp mask using the technique of Adobe Senior Creative Director, Russell Brown.
"Difference Image"
Composite of 11 digitally processed difference images using the method of Gerald L.Pellett Sky & Telescope, January 1998, pp. 117-120.
"Difference Enhanced Eclipse"
Composite of the Brown image with the adjoining Pellet difference image (substituted for the unsharp mask).



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