AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
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AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Still triple stacking this setup with 2x Solarmax 90mm etalons and a Combo Quark with Baader 3x on AT115EDT scope with ASI174MM camera. I have not wanted to pull apart my CPC925 camera/Quark rig, so I just moved the whole camera setup over to the AT115 refractor the the 90mm etalons. Don't know if there's a huge advantage to triple stacking, as it does dim things quite a bit.
Here's the flare that discharged material all the way to the limb. I used a new tool, Virtual Dub deflicker, to smooth out the animation a bit. Seems to work nicely. Thanks GreatAttractor.
And a reprocess with dark cantrast on the surface detail...maybe better view of flying material?
And here's a still with the triple stack...
And here was an experiment with binning...
And a still using the binned camera...
Here's the flare that discharged material all the way to the limb. I used a new tool, Virtual Dub deflicker, to smooth out the animation a bit. Seems to work nicely. Thanks GreatAttractor.
And a reprocess with dark cantrast on the surface detail...maybe better view of flying material?
And here's a still with the triple stack...
And here was an experiment with binning...
And a still using the binned camera...
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Nick:
Very good result, the flare is incredible in the animation,
Best wishes,
Eric.
Very good result, the flare is incredible in the animation,
Best wishes,
Eric.
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Excellent work, Nick!
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Thanks Eric and Valery. The flare was obvious during capture, and I thought I saw some bright spots near the limb after, but it wasn't until I animated it I really knew what I captured.
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
That is a great spray of material in the first ani, it is interesting how it stays white above the solar surface, usually these ejections show up as dark material until they get beyond the limb. This must be very hot material!
Out of interest can you provide a link to VirtualDub? I tried to download it once and it crashed the computer and the hubby refused to let me try again, perhaps I was on the wrong site or trying to load the wrong thing?
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Out of interest can you provide a link to VirtualDub? I tried to download it once and it crashed the computer and the hubby refused to let me try again, perhaps I was on the wrong site or trying to load the wrong thing?
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Thanks Derek and Alexandra. Pleased you enjoyed the animation.
Here's where I got VirtualDub...I used the 32bit version for Windows10.
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
and here's the deflicker plugin I had to install separately.
http://findfiles.com/11684/details-msu- ... lugin.html
Here's where I got VirtualDub...I used the 32bit version for Windows10.
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
and here's the deflicker plugin I had to install separately.
http://findfiles.com/11684/details-msu- ... lugin.html
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Cracking animations and images Nick, really enjoyed them.
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Good results Nick! Useful to know about the plugin thanks.
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Thanks folks. I've had varying results with the deflicker filter. Nothing beats clean even captures, that's for sure. On a recent attempt with deflicker it made an even fade from beginning to end, which although evened it out, was not really the result I wanted. I think feeding it even-ish levels from beginning to end works best. As my captures got consistently dimmer that day, it just smoothed out the dimming. Better to adjust during capture to even the histogram as much as possible.
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Amazing animation Nick!
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Very well done !
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Very well done and fun, Nick !
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Re: AR2665 Flare Animation to Limb - Triple Stacked SM90 - July 15, 2017
Superb animation Nick...well done !!!
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Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM
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Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
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