Prom animation 30th March 2021

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Prom animation 30th March 2021

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Here's the large NW prom animated over a period of 35 minutes. I was going to run this thing over an hour, but the seeing conditions were worsening by the minute. You'll see quite some variation over the course of the sequence of images.

Captured on my 150mm/DS Lunt 35 using a Basler acA1920-155um camera and 2.5x Powermate.

72 frames in total. ImPPG alignment.

Image2021-03-30_T_09-27-20-0108_L_l5_ap1975_out_aligned by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

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Absolutely incredible! It looks alive!


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Splendid !!


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Hi

Lovely animation.

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Fantastic Stuart!!! :bow
Thanks for sharing.
Can you please explain what "150mm/DS Lunt 35" is? DS is double stacking, I suppose with Lunt H-a? But what is 35? And what is your 150mm scope?
What would you say (in arc seconds) for your starting (amazing resolution) and ending seeing conditions?

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Excellent animation work, Stu, you killed it !

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Impressive tour de force! :bow

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Fantastic, love the detail!


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Mind-Blowing when you think of how fast the plasma is actually moving. It would cross the Earth's size in mere seconds!


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Absolutely terrific :hamster: :bow what time did you do your animation? it seems very similar to mine :)

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Fantastic work Stu!
I also got a lot of images from my Quark and 70mm refractor. I will try and process these in the coming days but am not an expert at them. It looked quite good, and I imaged and got lots of images for an hour. Not sure if the framing was all the same, as there was some drift, and variation over the hours.

Is a single video file any good ? It looked quite impressive where I was sitting.

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Stu:
Superb animation, thanks for sharing that splendid work.
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Montana wrote: Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:58 pm Absolutely terrific :hamster: :bow what time did you do your animation? it seems very similar to mine :)

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Thanks Alexandra. I started at 8:27 UT.

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H-Alpha wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:32 pm Fantastic Stuart!!! :bow
Thanks for sharing.
Can you please explain what "150mm/DS Lunt 35" is? DS is double stacking, I suppose with Lunt H-a? But what is 35? And what is your 150mm scope?
What would you say (in arc seconds) for your starting (amazing resolution) and ending seeing conditions?

Thanks once more,
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Many thanks, Alexandros.
150 mm is the objective diameter. The Lunt 35 is a former Ha scope (35mm objective) no longer sold by Lunt. Yes DS means double stacked (two Lunt 35 etalons).

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This is excellent Stu, glad you managed to capture it, work meant I missed it.


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