June to December 2012 , Whitelight Solar animation.

[Steve Ward]

Finally got round to animating all of my Solar photos from last year . . . .

Starting with June 29th when I embarked on the quest to catch him every day and finishing on December 20th.

I toyed with the idea of filling in the missing days with data from the brilliant NASA S.D.O. site , but decided against it in the end , any Thomas , Richard , or Harold can download their pics and string them together . . . it'd be cheating . . .

I don't think 140 odd shots from a possible 180 or so is too shabby for a beginner . . . .

Best viewed in HD and Fullscreen ,

Here's to the next 360+ days ,

Thanks for watching ,

Steve.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Awesome sequence! Your persistence really paid off!

[David Smith]

Brilliant Steve, well done.

[dtr42]

thats excellent was just thinking that as the sun is 1 million miles across [roughly] then how long do the sunspots take to travel over the sun ? 5-8 days looking at your stop frames so between 5,000 and 8,000 miles an hour

[Bizibilder]

Exellent animation Steve.

[JamesF]

Very nice, Steve. Well done.

James

[JamesF]

thats excellent was just thinking that as the sun is 1 million miles across [roughly] then how long do the sunspots take to travel over the sun ? 5-8 days looking at your stop frames so between 5,000 and 8,000 miles an hour

Different parts of the Sun rotate at different speeds, averaging 30 days to complete a full rotation I believe. A quick check on Wikipedia suggests 25 to 35 days depending on latitude. it also gives the speed of rotation at the equator as 7000km/hr so your estimate is a little high, but not far out at all.

James

[dtr42]

cheers james i was counting the frames as such if you look at say 0,36 to 0.45 you can follow spot across the equator of the sun looks about 8-9 days worth of travel [ about 8,00km/hr still pretty fast ]

[Steve Ward]

Cheers folks ,

Nothing doing here for the next week I fear , bored already . . .

Steve.

[JamesF]

Atrocious, isn't it? I've not seen the Sun at all, nor even clear shadows come to think of it, for several days. And there's no sign of a let-up until next week at the earliest. At least it isn't raining though, for the first time in about three weeks.

James

[Montana]

An absolutely stunning achievement!!! absolutely well done, you deserve a medal

If you are bored already, perhaps you could orientate all your images to north up, it would make the sequence 110% (hope you don't mind the comment)

Alexandra

[Qualia]

Spectacular, stuff. Images, music, persistence, dedication! Outstanding...

[DrRobin]

Quite amaing that video, nice to see the sun spots move from one day to the next. Pity you didn't add the date, it would be nice to see if I managed to get any pics on a 'Good' day from your video.

[Steve Ward]

Pity you didn't add the date, it would be nice to see if I managed to get any pics on a 'Good' day from your video.

Too lazy to add a caption to every frame on the full length one I'm afraid . . .

If you want to browse them all at your leisure I've just finished bringing my Astrobin Gallery up to date . . . http://www.astrobin....rs/steveward53/

An absolutely stunning achievement!!! absolutely well done, you deserve a medal

If you are bored already, perhaps you could orientate all your images to north up, it would make the sequence 110% (hope you don't mind the comment)

Alexandra

Sorry . .

There's bored and there's really bored . . . .

Will try harder this year . . . .

Steve.

[eliot]

Fabulous project well executed. Well done. If only I could get together the dedication to following something through like this...

[Zul]

Fantastic!