Prominence Animation 22 Jul 2103

Hi everyone, I am late on this but actually could not find time to process the data earlier. Time for video recording was 2 hours and at 15 frames per second, it became an animation of 12 seconds.

I recorded 194 videos and 184 were selected for this animation. Registax 6 took hours and hours for processing all this. I am happy that there is a batch mode available in the software. There is a small pause of about 5 minutes of recording, hence a slight jerk in the video around second 7. As always, you can right click on the video and can select 'Turn Loop On' option to thoroughly enjoy this prominence. 

Prominence Animation - 19 July 2013

I was hoping for a longer recording today but for some unknown reason to me DSSR, my acquisition program, was not guiding correctly. After various settings, i gave up on tracking and manually controlled the mount.

I recorded for about 25 minutes and then clouds came in.  So what you are seeing here in just 6 seconds, actually happened in 25 minutes on the solar surface.

 
 

Prominence Animation - 18 July 2013

okay so i finally learnt to use DVS and here is the animation.. very neat software! 

This movie is 12 seconds long and covers an actual time of about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The frame rate is 15 fps.

 
 

Prominence Animation, first attempt

Hi everyone, i used to do solar animations some time ago but that was with the legendary Losmandy Titan Mount.. which was fixed at my previous observatory and had a very good polar alignment. I remember that i did not feel any need of any nudge to the mount for more than 30 minutes. 

Now the more i am using Celestron Advanced VX mount, the more i am finding that it really should be called a mount for pros. Every time i take out the mount in the front courtyard and use only a compass to 'align' it to the north pole. There you go.. the mount is aligned and it works quite fine, even with a 2.5X barlow lens. I am happy with this mount!

I was testing this mount for making animations (9 july 2013).. following video is short.. okay.. very short, just 3 seconds. So folks if you want to enjoy it, right click on the video and choose 'Turn loop ON', it will keep repeating this movie clip and you would appreciated that something IS moving on the Sun!

By the way, i took me about 45 minutes to capture the video files, a few hours ot process them.. so these 3 seconds are one of your most important seconds in your life :-) 

 

 

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