Dramatic Animation of Prom Collapsing

[cshahar]

I took this animation of a prom on Monday the 12th. I was quite lucky as this prom was striking looking. This animation is divided into two parts separated by 30 minutes between them. The first part takes place in 89 minutes (178 frames), and the second part in 37 minutes (74 frames). Why the break? Silly me. I went looking for ARs (old habits are hard to shed), but there were none worth imaging, so I went back to the prom. Fortunately, the first part caught most of the collapse of this prom. I also love the twirling dervish in the second part. These animations may take a few seconds to load.

Note that aligning of the separate frames was accomplished with imppg. I take my hat off to its creator. Bravo on a wonderful program, which handled the changing face of this prom quite easily despite the multitude of frames.

-Charles

 

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Part 2:

[Ibbo!]

great captures

[keramos]

Excellent Charles... Lovely animations.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Those are absolutely stunning!

[GreatAttractor]

Breathtaking animations.

4 hours ago, cshahar said:

Why the break? Silly me. I went looking for ARs

If you have Internet access while imaging, you could just go to GONG, I look for any sudden new proms and flaring ARs this way (it can show a movie of recent activity).

[Debo]

Brilliant!!!

[spaceboy]

Simply SUPERB !!!

[Stu]

Incredible images Charles. It's hard to comprehend the scale and speed of the proms, any idea how tall they are?

I love the whirling dirvish, and the plasma collapsing back into the surface.

[carastro]

Quire stunning.  Amazing focus.

Carole 

[Davey-T]

Fantastic animation Charles, captured lots of fine surface spicules, really sharp.

Dave

[Pete Presland]

Fine detail visible there.

[Freddie]

Very nice work there. Good job.

[David Smith]

Super animations Charles.

[paulastro]

Absolutely fabulous Charles.  Wonderful animations.  Fireworks on a cosmic scale. 

[cshahar]

Thanks everyone for the lovely encouragement!

GreatAttractor, excellent suggestion. I already have the link for the GONG network, but should certainly use it more than I do. Thanks for the reminder!

Stu, I frankly don't know how tall these animations reach. A little earth globe superimposed will actually be a striking comparison. One of these days i shall do the calculations and get the correct scale.

-Charles