Contains:  Solar system body or event
Solar Prominence 'Tornado'  Animation  (lower left) + CME (upper right), cskozlowski

Solar Prominence 'Tornado' Animation (lower left) + CME (upper right)

Solar Prominence 'Tornado'  Animation  (lower left) + CME (upper right), cskozlowski

Solar Prominence 'Tornado' Animation (lower left) + CME (upper right)

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Description

240 images x 600 frames per image (10 seconds)  - taken over a 2 hour  period.  Raw data was over 600 GB.

Fascinating prominence activity including a coronal mass ejection and a prominence 'tornado'.

Processing first with autostakkert,  selected the best 15 percent of 600 frames.  Captures were taken on 20 second intervals, each capture took 10 seconds (60 fps).
Image alignment (solar limb) using imppg
Image processing with pixinsight (sharpening, disk masking, color generation)  - just started to use pixinsight (does batch processing brilliantly).

Quark DayStar Prominence filter was used for Ha-band capture.

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