Animation and full disc from Jan 25th

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Animation and full disc from Jan 25th

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Seeing was meh to poor, but given how dynamic the sun currently is, I wanted to get something from it regardless in case clouds move in tomorrow or the following days. And even a less than average day of imaging is still a good day:)

Animation is a little over an hour condensed into about 6 seconds, and was taken with the asi294mm+4x+ROI. The full disc was just 294mm+ROI.

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Re: Animation and full disc from Jan 25th

Post by Montana »

Incredible prominence :shock: The animation looks better in coloured version as it seems brighter and more able to see the details. It is quite quiescent considering but still some drifting plasma, but no plasma rain which is interesting. Nice work :movie

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Re: Animation and full disc from Jan 25th

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I love these. Very nice!! The SW prominence shows a lot of fine detail, especially in the movie.

Congrats on the SPOD and thanks for the view I missed.

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Re: Animation and full disc from Jan 25th

Post by Radon86 »

Nice work James !! :bow

Was this with the Lunt 100 scope ?? Nice scope !
I was going to image this prominence as well but the weather was not good (cloudy?) and I was working. I reckon I could have got a reasonable image wth my Quark.

Just my opinion, I think you could have got more by just focusing on the large prominence, without the disk details coming in the way. I would have done a single image to demonstrate the disc details and huge prominence but then animate the prominence. Maybe you could have got more images of the proms by taking more videos ?? I wonder if you could have brought out the faint proms if you had not concentrated on the disc? I have not done an animation yet, so I do not feel that qualified to give you comments.

Still very nice work !!!!

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