July 22nd 2014 - Solar Prominence Animation

[CKemu]

Even in a short period of time, the Sun can be wonderfully dynamic

Shot from my back garden in Mansfield, England, I had planned this to be a much longer sequence, but clouds interrupted early on, so this was shot over a 41 minute period, between 11:38 BST and 12:19 BST before the Sun was utterly obliterated.

Shot using a ASI120mm (monochrome) camera, 2x Meade Shorty Barlow and my solar telescope, the Coronado SolarMax II 60 BF10.

Each frame (72 in total) was a 10 second long, 65 FPS video, weighing in at 345MB, spaced 20 seconds apart. The math won't tally, as I deleted some frames due to clouds, or stacking issues caused by partial cloud cover.

[MarkRadice]

Fantastic captures.  Todays prom was fantastic wasn't it?  Thanks for posting, I only caught it when I got home in the evening so good to see how it appeared earlier.

Mark

[Pete Presland]

excellent, i could watch the sun all day if i had the time!

[Montana]

Excellent ani :) beautifully done

Alexandra

[bobmoss]

Cool! (Well, smoking hot really.... )