Animation 3.5hours AR3182 & AR3184

[Peterm]

G’day all,
After this mornings Solar Chat Zoom that was both very sociable and motivating, I decided rather than hit the sack I would try my longest run imaging the Sun to date.

I wasn’t really looking for the 3.5hrs of animation that I ended up with. Taking the lead from Stephen saying just set up and keep imaging and might just get lucky with something like an X Class flare. So I was rather hoping something bright would just explode into view and I could trim it down. But yeah, nah, zilch, like waiting for nuthin to happen.

The seeing was at best just OK, all over the shop really. I knew what I was in for as Meteo Blue, Skippy Sky and Telescopius painted similar pictures...bad seeing. But the reality was as you can see by my Solar Scintillation Monitor graph, there were moments to play with.

Here it is, an attempt at 3.5hrs animation of AR3182 & the emerging AR3184. Captured UT 2022/01/8&9 22:02 to 01:32. Local time January 9th 802am to 1132am. Note 2 separate animations were merged as I did change the exposure from 7ms to 6ms as the Sun was brightening rapidly…probably should have left it and let PixInsight try balance out later. I have learnt a lot from this exercise and hope to put that into use from hereon in.

Equipment: Lunt 80mm single stack, B1800 blocking filter, Hinode Solar Guider, Solar Scintillation monitor, Celestron AVX mount, ZWO432MM, Powermate X5. Toothpicks for my eyelids and coffee, lots of coffee.

Thanks for looking.
Peter

please click on the image to my astrobin page. It may take a moment to load as it is 230mb... I need to work on that!

[Averton]

Wow - we admire the commitment Peter!
Not sure about your assessment of not much happening in the animation. The more we watched the more we saw happening and in light of this morning's discussions, could spend hours trying to classify all of the events.

[MAURITS]

Spectaculaire animation Peter.

[rigel123]

I applaud your tenacity to get 3.5 hours on an animation! Despite changing the exposure the image is amazingly stable other than the blip when you see the limb brighten. Amazing amount of activity with all the surge proms and coronal rain going on at the limb as well as a tree prom with rotation in it. Add to that a number of small ribbon flares and I think the best thing is you can see the difference as to how surge proms present themselves from the ones on the limb to how they appear around AR3182 which is facing us as short eruptive filaments. Great job!

[Montana]

Oh my!!! nothing going on? I spent ages watching this, there is so much going on. From ribbon flares, arch filaments, micro flares following field lines, to the limb where there is surging, coronal rain and and transfer from ones side to the other. This is absolutely fascinating (once loaded) and is a treasure!

Alexandra

[marktownley]

That's nice cinema!

[DeepSolar64]

Wow, I certainly admire your patience and persistence. Very well done!

[Peterm]

Wow - we admire the commitment Peter!
Not sure about your assessment of not much happening in the animation. The more we watched the more we saw happening and in light of this morning's discussions, could spend hours trying to classify all of the events.

Thankyou Clare & Peter,

Yes I have to agree there is lots happening in that animation. I think I was hoping to capture what seem to be an elusive bright X Class flare. Probably a spill over from my Supernova discovery days (nights) capturing explosive transients hehe! I did see that around 543am this morning (my time) there was a nice X class flare in AR3184 @UT 2023/01/09 18:53.

[Peterm]

I applaud your tenacity to get 3.5 hours on an animation! Despite changing the exposure the image is amazingly stable other than the blip when you see the limb brighten. Amazing amount of activity with all the surge proms and coronal rain going on at the limb as well as a tree prom with rotation in it. Add to that a number of small ribbon flares and I think the best thing is you can see the difference as to how surge proms present themselves from the ones on the limb to how they appear around AR3182 which is facing us as short eruptive filaments. Great job!

Thank you Warren, wow that is a great summary of what is going on in there!

[Peterm]

Oh my!!! nothing going on? I spent ages watching this, there is so much going on. From ribbon flares, arch filaments, micro flares following field lines, to the limb where there is surging, coronal rain and and transfer from ones side to the other. This is absolutely fascinating (once loaded) and is a treasure!

Alexandra

Thank you Alexandra,

You have noted well events I hadn't even thought to look for! Yesterdays ZOOM chat was partly a motivating factor and I applaud you and all for organising and attending these!

[Averton]

Wow - we admire the commitment Peter!
Not sure about your assessment of not much happening in the animation. The more we watched the more we saw happening and in light of this morning's discussions, could spend hours trying to classify all of the events.

Thankyou Clare & Peter,

Yes I have to agree there is lots happening in that animation. I think I was hoping to capture what seem to be an elusive bright X Class flare. Probably a spill over from my Supernova discovery days (nights) capturing explosive transients hehe! I did see that around 543am this morning (my time) there was a nice X class flare in AR3184 @UT 2023/01/09 18:53.

Congratulations on the SPOD Peter. Well deserved!!

[MAURITS]

Congrats on SPOD Peter.

[Carbon60]

Very nicely done. Great resulting animation there.

Stu.

[Martin_S]

Great animation Peter, did you get my message ?

Martin

[SJohnson]

That is an excellent animation! I really admire the 3.5 hours of work after the Solar Chat Zoom. A very worthy SPOD!!

[eroel]

Peter:
Super animation, thanks for sharing it.
Best regards.
Eric.

[Bill_C]

WOW sorry had to shout it out wonderful capture and animation!!!

Bill

[Peterm]

Thanks so much everyone and was great to phone chat this morning Martin. Looks like that flare you were imaging while we were chatting stopped a finderscope cross hair short of an Xclass flare! Cant wait to see your images/animations.

Peter

[arnedanielsen]

Lovely animation and congrats on a well deserved SPOD!

Best regards,
Arne