12 August 2026 · Iceland & northern Spain
Your eclipse brackets, merged into one corona.
Totality lasts about two minutes. You will come home with a folder of bracketed exposures and no obvious way to turn them into the corona you actually saw. Send them to me. I merge them by hand and send back a watermarked preview of your own image — you pay €29 only if you like it.
Reserve a slot — free, no card10 slots. I process every one by hand.
The first mainland-Europe totality since 1999.
On 12 August 2026 the Moon's shadow crosses Iceland and northern Spain. There is no second attempt, no coming back next month for more data, no clear-night rescheduling. Whatever your camera records in those two minutes is all you will ever have of it — which is exactly why the processing shouldn't be the part that fails.
The bit nobody warns you about
Everything on the left is what eclipse and astro imagers actually say on the forums after the shoot. Everything on the right is what this service does about it.
“I bracketed correctly, but now what?”
You upload the brackets. You get a finished image back. That is the entire interaction.
“PixInsight can seem daunting when new.”
Nothing to install, nothing to learn, no layer masks.
“I'll process my results about 893 times.”
One upload, one result — reprocessed by hand if you want it different.
“I'm still pretty lost.”
You never touch a Smart Object, a mask, or a blend mode.
A visible blending seam — that rectangular transition where the exposures were merged.
Frames are cropped to their common overlap before merging, so no seam can form.
Background sky turning cyan or magenta once you stretch it.
Fused in linear 16-bit space and neutralised per channel, so the sky stays neutral.
The faint outer corona is simply invisible in any single exposure.
Exposure fusion recovers it. Measured on the test below: pure-black pixels fell from 18.5% to 1.3%.
What exposure fusion actually recovers
Left: one exposure on its own. Right: the same corona after the bracket is fused. Look at the outer corona — how far the streamers reach before the frame goes black.
One exposure
Bracket fused
Test render from a bracketed corona sequence — a synthetic bracket built from a real corona photograph to validate the pipeline. This is not a customer job: the service has no customers yet, which is the whole reason you get to see your own preview before paying.
This is a composite, and I will always say so
Your finished image is HDR-merged from several of your own exposures of the same eclipse — that is what makes the outer corona visible at all, and it is the standard technique for corona work. It is not a blend of anyone else's photograph, a stock corona, or a different eclipse. Every delivery ships with the exact recipe used, so you can state plainly how the image was made. Undisclosed compositing is why faked eclipse images keep getting debunked; disclosed compositing is just photography.
How it works
Reserve a slot
An email address, nothing else. Free, no card, and you can walk away at any point.
Shoot the eclipse
12 August 2026. Bracket your exposures through totality — I'll email a short shot list beforehand so you know what to capture.
Upload your brackets
JPEG or TIFF exposures, one upload link, no account. Drop them in when you're home.
See your own result
I process the set by hand and send back a watermarked preview of your image, within 48 hours of upload.
Pay only if you like it
€29 unlocks the full-resolution files. If the preview doesn't move you, you pay nothing and we're done.
What €29 unlocks
Charged once, after you have already seen your own image.
Full-resolution image
The processed master as a TIFF, a web-ready JPG, and a square crop already sized for social.
15-second before/after clip
Your own eclipse, one exposure dissolving into the fused corona. Ready to post the day you get it.
Two versions
One restrained and true to what the eye saw, one streamer-enhanced. Use whichever you prefer — you get both.
The exact recipe
Every step applied to your frames, written out — so you can say precisely how the image was made, or repeat it yourself.
One free reprocess
Want it darker, warmer, tighter, less enhanced? Say so and I redo it by hand, once, at no cost.
Delivered in 48 hours
Counted from your upload, not from the eclipse. Ten slots exist precisely so that stays true.
Reserve one of the ten slots
Free, no card, no account. You are reserving processing capacity for eclipse week — nothing is charged now, and nothing is charged later unless you like your preview.
10
slots for eclipse week. I process each set by hand, on my own machine — ten is what one person can genuinely turn around in 48 hours.
Slot reserved.
Check your inbox — I'll send the bracketing shot list a few days before 12 August, and your upload link once totality is over. Anything you want to ask before then goes to [email protected].
Who is actually doing this
I write the pipeline and then sit with every single result before it goes out. Each set is processed by hand, which is the honest reason there are ten slots and not a hundred. Write to me directly at [email protected].
Honest questions, honest answers
What files do I send?
JPEG or TIFF exposure brackets of totality — three to nine exposures of the same corona at different shutter speeds is ideal. Camera RAW (CR2, NEF, ARW) is not supported today: I am still testing it and will not claim it works before it does. If RAW is all you plan to shoot, email me first at [email protected] and I'll tell you honestly where that testing stands before you reserve.
Is the result a composite?
Yes, and it says so on this page rather than in the small print. Several of your own exposures of the same eclipse are HDR-merged into one image — that is the only way the faint outer corona and the bright inner corona can both appear at once. Nothing from another photograph or another eclipse is ever mixed in, and the exact recipe ships with your files so you can state how it was made.
What if it's cloudy?
Then you pay nothing. You never paid anything to reserve, and the €29 only happens after you have seen a preview of a real result — which cannot exist if there was nothing to shoot. Weather risk sits with the sky, not with your wallet.
What if I don't like the preview?
You say so and we stop there — you pay nothing. If you like it but want it different, tell me what to change: one hand-done reprocess is included once you've unlocked the files.
Has anyone used this yet?
No. This is a new service built for one specific eclipse, and there are no customers, no testimonials and no reviews to show you — inventing them would be the easiest thing on this page and the fastest way to deserve none of your trust. The proof offered instead is the preview of your own image, before any money changes hands, and the pipeline test shown above.
How do I bracket for the corona?
Fixed aperture and ISO, then run the shutter across a wide range during totality — roughly 1/1000s up to half a second. The short frames hold the inner corona and any prominences; the long ones hold the faint outer streamers. Reserve a slot and I'll email the full shot list before 12 August, whether or not you end up sending anything.
Why only ten slots?
Because each set is merged and judged by hand by one person on one machine, and the 48-hour turnaround is a promise rather than a hope. Eleven would make it a lie.
What happens to my email address?
It is stored to send you the shot list, the upload link and your preview — nothing else. No list rental, no newsletter, no third-party marketing. Reply “stop” to any message and it's deleted.