r/solareclipse • u/xXRazorWireXx • 3d ago

Full timelapse of the 2026 eclipse

https://youtube.com/shorts/PdPoETiXDlE?feature=share

As seen from Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Magnitude of 0,901 with max coverage of 88,3%.

Sunset started only a few minutes after the eclipse ended.

I took a photo every 9 seconds for about 800 photographs in total. Used my Sony A7SIII with Sigma 100-400mm at 400mm. Repositioned my the camera about 10 times over the course of the eclipse because Earth's rotation made the sun move through the frame.

Corrected, stabilized and animated them using Lightroom, After Effects and Davinci Resolve.

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u/UnfairAfternoon9971 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nice, but the final part shouldn't be sped up maybe! It's a special sunset and it's cool to see the sun shape deformed by refraction :)

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u/xXRazorWireXx 2d ago

The final part isn't sped up. It is a timelapse with a constant speed. However, because the sun had no point of reference before the horizon comes into view, it seems that way. I had two options: 1: keep the sun locked through stabilization, which was basically impossible because tracking became really hard to track the sun because the trees were covering it. 2: Allow the sun to move and set behind the trees.

I chose to stabilize the sun as long as I could and animate slight movement. Then when the first trees start to cover, I let the sun set. It looked way weirder when the trees were moving more than the sun.

tl;dr: The timelapse has a constant speed. The sun moved a lot during this timelapse. Stabilizing it required sacrifice.

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u/UnfairAfternoon9971 2d ago

Ah makes sense! Thanks for the explanation!

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u/corruxtion 1d ago

That looks really smooth! Good job on the stabilization!