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Solar Prominence Animation! 80 minute time lapse, B&W, Aug 19th 2018, Martin (Marty) Wise

Solar Prominence Animation! 80 minute time lapse, B&W, Aug 19th 2018

Solar Prominence Animation! 80 minute time lapse, B&W, Aug 19th 2018, Martin (Marty) Wise

Solar Prominence Animation! 80 minute time lapse, B&W, Aug 19th 2018

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I used the ST80 (masked to 60mm) and shrouded everything with reflective insulation to keep things from overheating. Quark and tilt adapter used. I did a flat calibration frame. I used maximum gamma and minimal gain to reach 85% histogram fill approximately, to get both prom and surface in a single exposure. I used sequence capturing and set it to fire off 300 frames every 5 minutes and just let it go. I managed to get 300 frames every 5 minutes x 16 frames (80 minutes real time) before the clouds took over. Animation is at 5 frames per second. I batch stacked in AS!2, batch processed in IMPPG and batch aligned in IMPPG. Some batch-action processes done in CS5.1. Animation made in PIPP to output as GIF & AVI.

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