Small Flare Erupting

[MarkRadice]

Fine, settled weather has arrived over the UK bathing us in soaring temperatures and glorious sunshine.  As the hordes descend to the beaches and light their bbq, I set up the solar scope and enjoyed some sunspots. 

I think I melted as it was so very hot – especially having to work under a dark blanket to see the computer screen!   After the montage below, I took a picture of an interesting sunspot group every 2 minutes for 40 minutes and caught a small flare erupting. The video is 2 mins = 1 second from 1611 to 1650Z.  Alas I can't work out how to post a video so I put it in my blog here: http://www.refreshingviews.com/solar-flare-eruption/. 

Quick questions:

How do you upload a video file, mine was rejected so I obviously pressed the wrong button!

How do you align each frame in the timelapse so that they don't jump around?  Mine moves around as the tracking was not perfect - although more than good enough by my typical efforts.

[xtreemchaos]

great image mate,nice flare, good detail.thanks for sharing..charl..

[JamesF]

Nicely caught.

The easiest way to post videos is probably to put them on youtube and link to them from here.  Or you could try making an animated gif.

For alignment, have a look at PIPP.  I think that might well do what you want.

James

[David Smith]

Great images.

I am led to believe imPPG can do the alignment work you mention although I have never tried it.

[laudropb]

Nice images. Thanks

[GreatAttractor]

Good catch, Mark!

I also suggest you use animated GIFs (turned out to be much smaller than your video file in this case: only ~1.6 MB). You can create them e.g. in GIMP using "File/Open as layers" (to load all the frames), then export as GIF with "as animation" option checked (you can select FPS). Alignment can be done by several tools, you may find ImPPG (see the link in my signature) convenient. That's how it's aligned your anim:

[Montana]

Amazing timelapse and some great images :)

Alexandra

[Ewan]

Very nice capture.

[Pete Presland]

Nicely captured and very well presented.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely work. Good catch of flares and surges