Contains:  Solar system body or event
Massive Dancing Prominence on the Sun (Animation), Chuck's Astrophotography

Massive Dancing Prominence on the Sun (Animation)

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This data turned into a nice surprise. I captured it a couple days ago, but it was one of those days were I kept having to adjust the focus. The prominence was huge, but very faint. I didn't think the data would be consistent enough for an animation, but when I put it together, it turned out to be one of the better animations I've done in a long time.

Even though I did have to throw away around 25% of my data because of focus issues, what was left, 75 frames captured over a 54 minute period, was still enough to make a smooth animation.

I like running it fast at 40fps, so I actually condensed 54 minutes of sun activity into 1.875 seconds. It plays in reverse when it reaches the end.

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