It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
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It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
After an unsuccessful Sunday session, today I finally caught a flare in the AR 2993/2994 sunspot complex. The seeing looked so-so in the live view, but apparently the faster camera and capturing a lot of frames helped, as the stacks are relatively stable in quality (250 fps, 10-second videos, 2 ms shutter with mild gain, 15% stacked).
GSO RC8 with Aries ERF and Lunt 50 etalon, camera: Blackfly S (IMX273), stacked with AS!3, processed and aligned in ImPPG, 20-second intervals, 1:07 h total (patience - large file):
Interesting that despite being M1.1-class (NOAA solar event list), it looks somewhat less dramatic than the last year's C4.0 (more or less the same image scale):
But after all, the classes are assigned based on X-ray flux detected at Earth orbit, not per “did it swirl well?”.
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GSO RC8 with Aries ERF and Lunt 50 etalon, camera: Blackfly S (IMX273), stacked with AS!3, processed and aligned in ImPPG, 20-second intervals, 1:07 h total (patience - large file):
Interesting that despite being M1.1-class (NOAA solar event list), it looks somewhat less dramatic than the last year's C4.0 (more or less the same image scale):
But after all, the classes are assigned based on X-ray flux detected at Earth orbit, not per “did it swirl well?”.
Active region portrait:
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Awesome detail! Love the combination of high res and animation, thanks for sharing!
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Nice catch!
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
This reminds me of a possible flare shown on SDO images around 17:00UTC today. The details are remarkably similar. Nice catch! Your Ha image shows what much of the SDOAIA304 image shows!! A second flare in the SW quadrant occurred about a half hour later.
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Nice images and animation. Well done.
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Very good indeed!
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Beautiful capture of the flaring ! Well done.
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Really nice animations of the flaring action!
Thanks for sharing,
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Thank you, everyone.
I'm thinking of getting a 4 TB SSD for acquisition now, because on Sunday I filled up the current 2 TB one (recording at a rate of about 10 GB/min.) and had to start deleting earlier videos while waiting for some flare action.
I'm thinking of getting a 4 TB SSD for acquisition now, because on Sunday I filled up the current 2 TB one (recording at a rate of about 10 GB/min.) and had to start deleting earlier videos while waiting for some flare action.
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Very nice, well done on getting the capture.
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Re: It's on fire! M-class flare caught on camera (RC8)
Great catch and capture. Thanks for posting.
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GreatAttractor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:01 pm Thank you, everyone.
I'm thinking of getting a 4 TB SSD for acquisition now, because on Sunday I filled up the current 2 TB one (recording at a rate of about 10 GB/min.) and had to start deleting earlier videos while waiting for some flare action.
WoW that’s an incredible amount of space to fill up in one session!!
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Great to see these images...nice captures and processing
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Well done Filip ! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow! Very nice and detailed animation. Also, good to see that RC is also good telescope for solar.
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Great animations and great detail!
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