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Granulation 14 minutes time-lapse

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Best seeing of the year and long lasting too on May 29th 2023
It allowed me to capture a sequence of 21 x 5000 frames AVI's and produce an high quality time-lapse of the Sun's surface evolution
I've never seen the Sun perform such a white light show for me
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I love this!! Awesome job! Nothing shows an active region like this like a good animation does.

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That is a spectacular sequence. Being able to clearly watch granules form and then disappear is mesmerizing. Well done sir.


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Great job!

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A superb animation with stunning detail. :bow

I find it fascinating that tiny dark features [spots] can survive in sub-granular dimensions.


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Rusted wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:53 am A superb animation with stunning detail. :bow

I find it fascinating that tiny dark features [spots] can survive in sub-granular dimensions.
I agree. I have read that pores can be as small as ten miles across! How can they survive against the granules which are several hundred miles across?

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Splendid. Very well done. :bow


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Very impressive indeed! What setup did you use?


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Nice! What setup did you use?


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Incredible view, especially of the umbral dots :bow :hamster: :movie

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That is just fabulous. Bravo ! The detail is incredible.

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Wow, super time lapse. Amazing to watch the photospheric convection cells boiling around.


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Beautiful animation. Was it something like a 11" or 14" aperture telescope?


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Fantastic animation and details.
Pls tell us about filters and setup you used.


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Hi all! Thank you for your comments! I used a SW250x1200 at 6000mm. ZWO174MM, 240mm astrosolar 3.8 and continuum filter. Best 300 of 5000 frames AVI. I imagined the Sun for 3 days in a row but while on the first two days the excellent seeing conditions lasted only a minute or two in two hours, on the 27th suddenly it felt like being at La Silla....for 15 to 20 minutes!
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Geez this animation has just raised the bar! Absolutely superb! Watching the changes in the granulation is spectacular.


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WoW and WoW again! These look like professional images. Is these from a 250mm Newtonian? Several amateurs here like You, Christian and a couple of others have really been turning out some truly impressive high resolution photosphere images lately.

What days were these taken? Obviously the 27th was one of them.

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Great additions!


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My mistake. The timelapse is from the 29th, the single sunspot image the 23 rd and the last one the 27th. Newton sw250/1200. Other 3 days of imaging didn't produce anything good despite the 5/5 meteoblue prediction. Thanks again for all the comments. Captured using Sharpcapture elaborated with AS3 using drizzle1.5 and regis


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mrcvaccari wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:36 pm 240mm astrosolar 3.8
Hold on to and keep good care of it, because no one knows when ND 3.8 in sizes >20 cm is coming back, if ever. :lol:


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Wonderful, thanks
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Had a 250mm 5.0 filter and found a guy that was selling a 240x240sheet of 3.8 in the used equipment market.


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Absolutely great shots !

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mrcvaccari wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:36 pm Hi all! Thank you for your comments! I used a SW250x1200 at 6000mm. ZWO174MM, 240mm astrosolar 3.8 and continuum filter. Best 300 of 5000 frames AVI. I imagined the Sun for 3 days in a row but while on the first two days the excellent seeing conditions lasted only a minute or two in two hours, on the 27th suddenly it felt like being at La Silla....for 15 to 20 minutes!
Sensational images - the detail is amazing.


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Some of my settings and a video of my live-view
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Fantastic HR images and animation, simply superb


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Here is the video
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Excellent high resolution imaging. You really reached the limits of your scope under daylight seeing !


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Magical shots, a new difficult-to-reach level! Honored SPoD!

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Absolutely fantastic work,well done :bow :bow :bow :bow

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