My first solar anim

[Luke]

I've enjoyed seeing some solar animations here on SGL recently, so I thought I would get around to trying one. I thought I didn't have the patience for solar anim, but the capture was not too bad! I used a manual mount for this one, which kept me on my toes as I had to hurry up and "reset" the position before the gap got too long! Any tips on solar anim greatly appreciated! Thanks for looking, Luke

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10th November, 2014

Tele Vue 60mm, Quark Chomosphere, Grasshopper 3 (ICX687) video camera, 0.5x reducer

[theo]

I don't think you need any tips based on this Luke.  Wonderful.

Pete

[Fish]

Very nice :-)

[Pete Presland]

excellent, love the parts falling back to the surface!

[Montana]

Absolutely wonderful! I really don't think you need any tips, you should be giving tips out :)

Alexandra

[sooot]

Great animation, love that burst of activity on the surface. Whats the time scale of it?. I was looking at a solar tracker for this kinda stuff so i dont sit there re adjusting all the time but 500 squids alit for my laziness

[spaceboy]

Simply superb Luke!! I bet your well chuffed with those result.

[Luke]

Thanks, all!

Beginner's luck I think if it's come out okay. I was lucky there was a fair bit going on, I was happy to see a flare appear during the sequence (black on the inverted disc)

I just shot with my regular settings with my 60mm untracked, which with my setup is 1400 frames (about 45 seconds) per capture. The time scale was about 40 minutes, with 23 captures. So I think there was about a one minute interval between shots.

I tried using the cool free imgalt to auto align the frames but no joy, so I manually aligned them (the long bit!), and then ran them through imgalt again, not too sure if that changed things much, but it couldn't hurt I figured.

[Montana]

No need to manually align, I find that Registax 5 does an excellent job, just load all the pictures in and align. Then save all the individual frames again. I usually do this 2 or 3 times to get a smooth align.

Alexandra

[Luke]

Thanks for the tip, that should save a lot of time! Hmmm that might make a longer anim a goer, I'm thinking almost continous bursts of say 500 frames when using tracking.

[Iainp]

That's your first??   I give up!!

 Love the action on the surface. I wish I could capture the "hairy sun" effect . Amazing work  

[Ruud]

Very beautiful. I hope you'll make many more of this quality.

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Luke, if the weather carries on like today I may dig out some vid's and see if I can produce something.

Dave

[DrRobin]

Nice.

Robin

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Real stunner

[Stardust]

very nice