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Solar Flare timelapse animated gif. Quark

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First time imaging for two months and I captured this nice little flare that fired up for about 3 or 4 minutes yesterday afternoon, Sunday 1st Nov.

Captured using Daystar Quark, very basic "el cheapo" 102 mm f6.5 Nova brand Achromat on Celestron AVX mount with a GSO reducer and ZWO ASI174MM CMOS camera.

I captured a sequence of 10 second SER video files using Firecapture'sn "autorun" feature, one video every 30 seconds, stacked the best 10% of frames in each video into a single frame using Autostakkert 2, then built those tiff frames into a timelapse video using DVS (Dave's Video Stabiliser). I then tinted and adjusted levels of the final video using Virtualdub and saved as an animated gif.

I saw an aircraft transit the disk too, but sadly didn't have the camera running when that happened.

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Solar Ha setup: Daystar Ha Quark, APM 140/980 refractor, Coronado SMII 60 DS BF15, McDougall Solar AutoGuider. Skywatcher ST80, Orion ED 80, WO ZS66 SD, and Nova 102mm f/6.5 achromat refractors.
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Cameras: Celestron Neximage Burst Mono, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, AS120MC, ASI174MM, ASI290MC, Canon 60D, Celestron Nightscape CCD
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That's a great capture Chris!


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Nice capture of flare and plasma plume ejection, Chris.

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Thanks Mark, Stu. I only saw the plasma plume after I processed it all, as that wasn't apparent when capturing the flare. Seeing wasn't great so the live view was pretty wobbly, and there were a few very thin hazy cloud patches coming across the fov during the captures, hence the very variable brightness during the timelapse.

I've got some still images to process yet from some earlier captures before lunch, during which I noticed some fast moving action crackling away in and around that sunspot complex, which got me organised to be ready to capture for timelapse if a flare fired up, which it duly did. The ASI174MM seems to be working well with the Quark now that I have found some useable gain/gamma settings, but I still haven't got a reducer spaced correctly to get decent reduction without vignetting in the corners of the biggish sensor fov.

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Location: Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Solar Ha setup: Daystar Ha Quark, APM 140/980 refractor, Coronado SMII 60 DS BF15, McDougall Solar AutoGuider. Skywatcher ST80, Orion ED 80, WO ZS66 SD, and Nova 102mm f/6.5 achromat refractors.
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Cameras: Celestron Neximage Burst Mono, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, AS120MC, ASI174MM, ASI290MC, Canon 60D, Celestron Nightscape CCD
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Excellent catch :bow :bow :hamster:

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Thanks Alexandra. :)


Location: Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Solar Ha setup: Daystar Ha Quark, APM 140/980 refractor, Coronado SMII 60 DS BF15, McDougall Solar AutoGuider. Skywatcher ST80, Orion ED 80, WO ZS66 SD, and Nova 102mm f/6.5 achromat refractors.
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Cameras: Celestron Neximage Burst Mono, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, AS120MC, ASI174MM, ASI290MC, Canon 60D, Celestron Nightscape CCD
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great catch!


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What an event. Thanks for sharing that!


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Hi Chris,

Nice animation

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