2008 Total Solar Eclipse - Corona Composite
  

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Equipment: Borg 77mm ED refractor, Kenko Sky Memo mount, Nikon D300
F-ratio: f/6.5
Exposures: 1/4000 second x 2, 1/2000 x 2, 1/1000 x 2, 1/500 x 2, 1/250 x 2, 1/125 x 2, 1/60 x 2, 1/30 x 2, 1/15 x 2, 1/8 x 2, 1/4 x 2, 1/2 x 2, 1 x 2, and 2 seconds x 2 at ISO 200
Date: August 1, 2008
Location: Weizixia, China
Technical Notes: The exposures were combined into a 32-bit HDR image in Photomatix. The resulting image was processed in Photoshop CS5. The image was sharpened using a layer created by subtracting a Radial Blur from the original image.

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