Prom Animation 09-10-15

[Davey-T]

Left the scope taking a time lapse yesterday as I had to go out, drifted a bit so unfortunately by the time it was aligned / cropped I lost a bit off the bottom.

About a 100 frames processed in AS2, iMppg, P'Shop

Dave

Quark Chromo' , 100mm refractor, PG BFly .5X f/r

[ArmyAirForce]

I love watching animations like this. I guess you could work out the speed of movement based on a comparison to Earth's diameter and the start/finish time of the images.

[David Smith]

Fascinating watching this develop. Thanks Dave

[laudropb]

Lovely animation. Thanks for posting.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Great time lapse. Really intricate detail in that prom

[Mick J]

Very nice, thanks Davey

[sooot]

very nice and well put together

[Montana]

That is a real delight to watch, thank you for this one :)

Alexandra

[Pete Presland]

Fantastic animation lovely fine detail showing.

[JamesF]

That's a fantastic animation.  Well done.

James

[JamesF]

I love watching animations like this. I guess you could work out the speed of movement based on a comparison to Earth's diameter and the start/finish time of the images.

We did something like that a few weeks back.  You can get a lower bound estimate, but obviously as the prom can only be viewed in two dimensions and it's actually moving in three it's not possible to know how fast it might be moving in the direction you can't see.  My recollection is that the speed of travel came out as something upwards of 30km/s.

James

[cshahar]

Very cool Dave! The slower speed allows one to really appreciate the more subtle movements.

[Tyson M]

Very nice. I hope to see and make stuff like this in the future. 

[Ewan]

Well done Dave, very nice capture & liked watching it over & over mate, keep it up.

[MarsG76]

Great work, prominence animations are always hypnotic to me....