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![Here’s a variation on creating a time-sequence composite of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse In this case, time runs from left to right, from the last filtered partial phases I shot, through unfiltered shots of the rapidly changing last glimmer of sunlight disappearing behind the advancing Moon at “Second Contact,” forming “Baily’s Beads, to totality at centre] The sequence continues at right with the Sun emerging from behind the Moon in a rapid sequence at “Third Contact,” followed by two post-totality filtered partials to bookend the total eclipse images The C3 limb had a beautiful array of pink prominences The Contact 2 and 3 images were taken in rapid-fire continuous mode and so are only fractions of a second apart in real time Most are 1/4000th second exposures The totality image is a blend of 7 exposures, from 1/1600 second to 1/15 second to preserve detail in the corona from inner to middle corona These were aligned, and merged into a smart object and blended with a Mean combine stack mode It is not an HDR image I added a couple of layers of High Pass filtering to sharpen structure in the corona The partials are 1/2500-second exposures through a Thousand Oaks metal-on-glass solar filter for the yellow colour All were taken through an Astro-Physics 106mm apochromatic refractor with a 085x field flattener/reducer for an effective focal length of 500mm at f/5 The flattener added some flares off the diamond rings The telescope was on an AP Mach One equatorial mount, aligned and tracking the sky, a rare circumstance for me for any total solar eclipse The placement of the frames here only roughly matches the actual position and motion of the Sun across the sky during the time around totality Partials and C2 and C3 images layered into Photoshop and blended into the background totality image with a Lighten blend mode, and masked to reveal just the wanted bits of each arc The site was north of Driggs, Idaho in t(Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5nFEn97De7j4XBr35ZTiwJ-840-80.jpg.webp)
NASA is joining with Twitch, Microsoft, and Epic for a livestream event featuring eclipse-themed Minecraft and Fortnite games
news The Look Up! event will feature a mix of the solar eclipse and streamers playing eclipse-themed games.
'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs
News It's not easy to get funding for a new game right now.
'It took a while, we know': Epic Games is introducing a first-person camera to Fortnite, which I'll probably just use to look at all the Peter Griffin skins
News A whole new perspective.
Epic is having a spring sale too, and to get things started it's giving away Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for the first time
news Epic Rewards have been boosted to 10% for the duration of the sale.
Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'
news Newell remained magisterially above the fray.
Fortnite remains offline as Epic struggles with unexpected issues: 'This stuff is tricky!' Tim Sweeney says
news Epic says players will be able to "pre-download" an updated version of the new season at around 9 pm ET.
Epic celebrates 'a big win' as Apple reverses course and promises to restore its iOS developer account: 'We are moving forward as planned to launch the Epic Games Store and bring Fortnite back to iOS in Europe'
news This is all getting a bit ridiculous. Okay, really ridiculous.
Alan Wake 2's out-of-the-blue system requirements change means you no longer need an RTX card to hit its minimum spec
News This one goes out to all the people still using GTX 1070s.
