onsdag 16. juni 2021

Solar prominence animation, second attempt

 The first attempt was exciting, and inspiring. So I decided to make another go yesterday. But tracking was not good. I am not able to properly polar align my mount now during the summer, so the Sun drifted out of view of the camera in 10 minutes. More precisely, the cropped view. I only used 512x512 pixels of the cameras 3000x2000. Both in order to lower the storage demands, but also to speed up frames per second. 

The following is an interesting loop of plasma I discovered and started filming at the end of my session before I had to leave. Much to my joy and excitement, this loop was really moving. The frames were recorded 2 minutes apart. Which gives an impression of just how fast the plasma moves in this loop.

Tech details : Lunt LS35 Deluxe H-alpha telescope. ASI178MM gain 150, exp 2 ms. Stacked in AS!3, processed and animated in Gimp.




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