9 hours 7 minutes timelapse of AR3311, 3313 and 3314 in H-Alpha 21st of May 2023

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9 hours 7 minutes timelapse of AR3311, 3313 and 3314 in H-Alpha 21st of May 2023

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Dear friends,

Finally, after a long time of processing, I'm able to share my longest timelapse so far.

After finishing some close-up images in both H-Alpha, CaK and Continuum together with short CaK timelapse early in the morning on Mary 21st (shared in another post), I started a long sequence of recordings of AR3311, 3313 and 3314. The forecast was that this active group had a good chance for some flaring and I was hoping to get lucky. The weather was very good through the whole day with no clouds and very consistent transparency. The seeing was also quite good most of the time, but of course deteriorated a bit during noon. Late afternoon, after over 8 hours of recording, I got lucky and managed to catch a M2.6 flare from AR3311.

The time-lapse animation is created from 1481 recordings between 07:46 and 16:53UT on May 21st 2023. Each recording was 15 seconds long with a framerate of 55 (825 frames) and 5 seconds delay between each recording.

The recordings where obtained using a using a Explore Scientific AR 152 equipped with a Altair Astro 152mm ERF, Baader 35nm H-Alpha, TeleVue PowerMate 4x, DayStar Quantum 0,4å PE and Player One Apollo-M Max mounted on a ZWO AM5 mount guided with Hinode SolarGuider.

The 200 frames from each recording was stacked in AutoStakkert!3 before they were aligned, sharpened and contrast stretched in ImPPG.

The animation was created in PIPP at 15fps effectively compressing the 9 hours 7 minutes of duration down to just 1 minute 38 seconds.

The timelapse is rather big, so please be patient for it to load. Hope you like it!

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Here are the details for the activity during the day.
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Re: 9 hours 7 minutes timelapse of AR3311, 3313 and 3314 in H-Alpha 21st of May 2023

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Amazing animation. I admire anyone who can create something like this.


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Re: 9 hours 7 minutes timelapse of AR3311, 3313 and 3314 in H-Alpha 21st of May 2023

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Thank you very much for your kind comment Petr!

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excellent! :)

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Wow!! this is incredible :movie :movie :movie

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Amazing time lapse Arne. That's more sunlight in that time lapse than we have had in a month! Great work.


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Thank you very much Stephane, Alexandra, Clare & Peter!

It's been another good spell of sunny skies... so much so that I'm seven days behind on my image processing :-o

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Superb, Arne. That’s a lot of work!

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Lovely images Arne!


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Hats off, Arne! Titanic work and a wonderful result!

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arnedanielsen wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:55 pm Thank you very much Stephane, Alexandra, Clare & Peter!

It's been another good spell of sunny skies... so much so that I'm seven days behind on my image processing :-o

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Thank you so much for your kind comments Stu, Mark, Ivan, Clare & Peter!

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