# @reeceashbymedia on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcPA84LInwg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69802429-reeceashbymedia-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7d505e8883.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T20:16:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Reece Ashby (@reeceashbymedia) — https://gondola.cc/reeceashbymedia

## Caption

I wanted to share how I created this image of the partial solar eclipse at Jodrell Bank 🌒📡

This isn’t a single shot — it’s a composite built from a time-lapse sequence, capturing the eclipse’s movement across the afternoon sky.

The camera was locked on a tripod with a 24–70mm lens, carefully framed to include the Lovell Telescope while leaving space for the eclipse to travel through the scene. I used an ND filter to tame the sun’s intensity and exposed specifically for the solar disc, taking a frame roughly every 5 minutes.

Consistency was everything — camera position, composition, and focus all had to remain completely unchanged. Even the slightest shift would have made alignment far more difficult later on.

Once the sequence was complete, I captured a separate foreground exposure for Jodrell Bank and the landscape, giving a clean, well-balanced base without lifting shadows from the eclipse frames.

In Photoshop, I layered each eclipse position over the base image, carefully aligning and blending them to form the arc across the sky — effectively compressing hours of movement into one frame.

What looks like a single photograph is really a collection of moments stitched together over time.

And the Lovell Telescope felt like the perfect companion beneath it — one of the world’s most iconic radio telescopes under a celestial event 📡🌒

#SolarEclipse #PartialSolarEclipse #EclipsePhotography #Astrophotography @sony.unitedkingdom @britishphotographyawards @jodrellbank @uk.shooters  @adobeuk @bbcskyatnightmag

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reece Ashby | @reeceashbymedia | https://gondola.cc/reeceashbymedia | Photographer |

## Tags

partialsolareclipse, astrophotography, solareclipse, eclipsephotography

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