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nteresting day and a few problems. Major issues tring to process Quark prominences for an animation. Imppg will not Aline the frames for some reason. Anyway that aside, the animation, MPEG 4, is 2 hours of the new arrivals AR 3643 and associated AR's. Captured with a Lunt 100 DS and a ZWO432mm opera...

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Three different setups today. I needed to get a better handle on what was what. Still got more to do, but narrowing it down a bit. First three are my Lunt 100 DS and ZWO 432MM Next three are from my Coronado 90mm with the ZWO 432mm Last three are with the Quark and the ZWO174MM Last but not least a ...

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Montana wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:19 am Wonderful Ralph wow, that last prom shot is a real beauty!

Are you planning for the 2028 eclipse?

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I live right on the centre line Alexandra. No planning nessary.

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Seeing was not really good but settled for half an hour. I concentrated on AR 3628 and AR 3633. This is how I saw them this morning. I have an animation of an hour and a half but conditions make it very poor. HI Res - https://astrob.in/rug1nk/0/ https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/sNXwTUKAopwN_1824x0_1I...

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Clouds moving through all day for me so no chance for an Animation. Imaging in the gaps, so I thought I might see what would happen if I put my Quark on the DS 100 Lunt. All images in that configuration, except one prominence which is just with the DS. Why not!!! Hi Res- https://astrob.in/76ocvw/0/ ...

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Very nice detail for the condition. I look forward to seeing some of your work with good seeing.

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After three days of rain and cloud I managed about a 20 minute gap. Time only for a look at AR3628 on the eastern front and the Prominences on the west side. These proms use to be the filaments in my last post. https://astrob.in/8tu1pp/0/ https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/6WeDBK8bpp7F_1824x0_1IAs-44Z....

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Peterm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:49 am These look fab Ralph. I really like the SE area detail you have captured. My animation of that area has a lot of mushy seeing in it.

Totally disagree Peter, yours is much better than mine.

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Our Sun seemed reasonably quite today. My imaging friend, Peter Marples, put up a nice inverted animation of the large filaments in the south west quarter yesterday.https://astrob.in/4whmt7/0/ It showed some nice movement so I had a look at it this morning. Seemed to be very quite today but looks go...

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Yes Peter, super work for not-so-great conditions. I particularly like the inverted filament, quite good movement in there. Iam trying one now.
The finale animation has some very fine detail.

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Have had no Sun for a couple of days. So I made a colour version of AR 3615 on the Limb. Also processed a couple of frame from the capture files showing the Loop structure. https://astrob.in/en875p/0/ https://astrob.in/en875p/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg?insecure 2024-03-31-0049_7-CAPTURE_LAPL4_AP2915...

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Today started very cloudy and never really cleared that much. I have attached a shot of the sky that these images were taken through. At times the Exp. was 20ms to keep around a 50% histogram. I thought it really a waste of time but it seemed to work. You can be the Judge I guess. One of my imaging ...

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I was lucky today to be able to capture the departure of AR 3615. Seeing was not great to start but settled down and was quiet consistent of the rest of the captures. This totals 5 hours of what was happening on the limb as 3615 disappears from our view. The large Sunspot on the trailing edge of the...

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Today started clear but soon was destroyed by cloud from an animation point of view. I had three attempts at an animation and wound up deleting all of them. Seeing was consistently bad all day between clouds and I stopped at 4.30pm. All I could manage is a few captures in some reasonable gaps. I all...

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The monster active area 3614 is nearing the western limb now. I am hoping for some clear sky in the morning for a farewell look. In the meantime this is some of what I saw this morning. The animation (1 Hr and 55min )is from the day before and the images from today covering AR 3614, 3615 and 3619. A...

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Thought I would look at AR3614 this morning after a few days of cloud. It has been quiet active but seemed a little passive while I was imaging today. Never the less here is 2 hours and 5 minutes of it's daily routine. From 2227 UTC until 0032 UTC. I also looked at AR3615 and a couple of prominences...

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Thanks everyone! I tried the image align in ImPPG but unfortunately my tracking was a bit too wayward and the program didn't do it for me. I ended up manually aligning in Registax 5, doing a batch process in Photoshop to blacken the disc and then finishing up with PIPP for the final animation. The ...

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This is the same data as the colour but shows more finer details I think.
https://astrob.in/9ld3ng/B/

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You have some nice details in there Brian. Flats will help a lot with the uneven illumination.

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I saddled up for the Prominences again today. Condition were reasonable for a 3 Hour animation of the departing SW prom complex The GiF was far to big, so again it is presented as a MPEG4 video. Capture was from 2224UT until 0127 UTC Lunt 100 DS with a ZWO 432 mm at F35. Static images are firstly of...

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After a few days of rain and cloud I got about an hour and a half of imaging this morning. Wanted to look at some prominences both DS and SS. Also managed 50 minute animation of the departing SW fila-prom. First image is Double Stack, second on of the same area is Single Stack. Third image is SS and...

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marktownley wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:47 am Great cinema thanks Ralph!

Hi Mark,
Why can't I link the image address with MPEG4 the same way we link the GIF files?

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Hey guys,
Why can't I upload a MPEG4 File. It is only 52 MB.
It does not appear to work the same as the "the copy image address" we use for GIF's.
The AstroBin link is fine but is simply tries to insert an image symbol when the address is pasted in.

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A farewell look at AR3599 on the western limb. This is 2hours and 47 minutes of it daily routine. 2237 to 1024 UTC. Again a very large file, so presented as a MPEG4 Video. The presentation is rotated 90Deg CCW for easier viewing Lunt 100 DS with a ZWO432mm camera at F35. Animation at - https://astro...

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Seeing was awful as you can see in the video. I new at the time but did the capture anyway as I wanted to try different delay time and a different way of processing. I was going to delete it but thought I would try inverting it for different approach. Rather than try and post a 200MB+ GIF, Arne Dani...

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cybermayberry wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:55 am
solar wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:29 am I will set my alarm this time.
You will be sitting pretty in 4 years though

Yes Rich,
Right in the centre line, probably be raining.

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I will set my alarm this time.

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Thank you very much for taking the time to look and comment everyone! Much appreciated! Ralph: The resulting GIF-animation from PIPP ended up at 639MB so this time I generated and uploaded a MPEG-4 encoded AVI file instead (also in PIPP). Using maximum quality this file ended up with a filesize of ...

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Excellent Arne, really smooth and excellent detail throughout.
That amount of data tends to put me off. However the results speak for them selves.
What was the upload file size on AstroBin?

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Send it back to ZWO and they will fix it Rich.

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Looks like you have that little contraption sorted out Warren. Pity it doesn’t dissipate clouds.

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This is all I could manage today. The AR 3599 complex is nearing the SW Western limb.

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Had a look with my 90mm SS Coronado and the Quark today. The main image is of the big SW limb prominence with my 130mm Vixen and the Coronado at F30, and a ZWO 174mm. Conditions were not great but consistent. The first two are of AR 3599 one with the Coronado and one with the Quark. Same with the Pr...

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Reasonable seeing to day. This is a look at AR 3599 and the SW limb prominences. Just as I was setting up for an animation a huge prominence lifted of the Suns surface. I caught what I could. Ten minutes earlier would have been nice. Hopefully someone has captured more than me. https://astrob.in/vze...

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Reasonable conditions for todays look at our Sun. Seeing steady most of the time and l there was no wind here but the QLD guys had a hard time. This is 3 Hours of the activity in the AR 3599 and AR 3600 complex. Both producing minor flare activity during the capture. There is also a host of other ac...

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Condition were a little better today. Started a bit cloudy but cleared away. I managed an animation of the AR 3599 and AR 3600 region. Starting at 0001 UTC until 0221UTC. Seeing was pretty reasonable throughout with only odd times that were iffy. I have added 2 static images as well, one is Double S...

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A revisit to 3 March 2024. Some nice prominences coloured and masked in Photoshop. Animation with Lunt 100 DS with a ZWO 432mm at F35. Plus a nice prom from 6 March. Taken using a Vixen 130mm and a Quark with a ZWO 174mm camera. https://astrob.in/x1tg3r/0/ https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/3448/2024/c...

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Not really great seeing this morning. Started testing my Quark on the 130mm Vixen with ZWO 174mm camera. Both prominences were captured with it. The rest were with my Lunt 100 DS and a ZWO 432mm at F35. There was a couple of nice Fila-proms, one on the east and one on the west side today. Fila-prom ...

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After two days of cloud and rain, today started the same. After mid morning some breaks and cleared for an hour and a half for a prom animation. Had a look at AR 3595 and a nice filament. There is some nice activity coming around the SE limb. I managed the animation from 0032 until 0204 UTC. Lunt 10...

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Hal as a fairly reasonable Solar imager, what ever process you used on the first image, I would not change as it on the money. Everything can of course can be tweaked, nothing wrong with that. Topaz AI, I think, has no place in Solar processing. Same goes for planetary. It certainly has a place but ...

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Excellent work here Peter. There is really good resolution throughout and shows the activity on the southern side of the Umbra perfectly.

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Lovely work Paul. I like the slightly off band image in this case. It show some detail that would other wise be lost.

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Really nice Franco. What a great asset to any office.

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Good stuff James. That is a particularly nice view of 3590 approaching the limb.

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I’m guessing you have the S50 with you on your trip Warren. Interested in seeing more in the future.

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Nice set Martin. I’m glad you got to catch those loops. That SE activity looks promising as well.

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Well here is the daily dose of AR 3590 as promised. Had a morning session and afternoon as well. Conditions we on and off a bit but managed to capture some details. The morning session was a bit smaller than the afternoon due to some troublesome cloud. It is fast approaching the western limb so tomo...

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Here is my daily look at AR3590. I have been very lucky to be able to image this system most all the way across the disc. Think I only missed one day so far. Conditions were terrible early this morning very windy and bad seeing. The first 2.5 hours of data I deleted as unusable. Things picked up aro...

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Tuesday 27th started with full cloud but cleared for a short while and then full cloud again. The clear gap was between 2345 UT and 0133 UTC. AR 3590 still remains active as the animation shows, however there was no major eruptions. I am hoping to get at least this much tomorrow and then it will be ...

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Another day with AR 3590 rotation across the Suns disc as we see it. I'm sorry for the difference in brightness during both animations but cloud hampered the session all day. I thought it more important to collect the data rather than try to be perfect. I normally would not image for an animation in...

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