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

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

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

Solar Prominence Animation! 80 minute time lapse, 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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