Contains:  Solar system body or event
Animation of huge Solar prominence 29th may 2015, morrienz

Animation of huge Solar prominence 29th may 2015

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Description

Two hours of action compressed into 8 seconds.

This is 2 hours worth of the action in the prom, from around 1 pm to 3pm. I captured 120 5 second avi files a minute apart using Firecapture's "Autorun" feature, stacked each avi to one image with Autostakkert 2, combined the images into the timelapse animation at 15 frames per sec with DVS (Daves Video Stabilizer), then tinted, sharpened, and stretched the levels of the final timelapse video in Virtuadub.

Equipment was ZWO ASI174MM camera, very basic ST80 scope on Celestron AVX mount, Daystar Quark (Chromosphere model - which as you can see works quite nicely on Proms as well). Energy rejection was with a simple Astronomik reflective IR filter on the nose of a diagonal as recommended by Daystar (a front mounted ERF would be recommended for Petzvals or other scopes with mid-rear mounted image flattening lenses, or for larger aperture scopes)

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