Solar animation (a first)

[tooth_dr]

After working out how to do a simple script in FireCapture (I was using 'wait' in seconds not milliseconds, took a while to figure that out!) I  put together 36 images, over the period of an hour. To same I am pleased to have picked up some activity is an understatement!

Hope you like it!

 

[GreatAttractor]

Very good result. What telescope did you use?

[tooth_dr]

1 minute ago, GreatAttractor said:

Very good result. What telescope did you use?

Thanks Filip.  I used a Lunt 60mm scope.

Your software made aligning the images very very simple.  In fact I have never used your programme until this morning, and it required no effort at all, two minutes and I was done.  Thank-you so much.

[Knighty2112]

Excellent work. Done very well!  

[Davey-T]

Well done you've been a busy solar bee recently.

Firecapture has an Autosave feature that will do time lapse for you.

Dave

[tooth_dr]

12 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Well done you've been a busy solar bee recently.

Firecapture has an Autosave feature that will do time lapse for you.

Dave

Thanks Dave.  I wasnt aware of that feature!  I tried a few - SHARPCAP, ICAP and then back to FC to work out scripting lol¬!

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, Knighty2112 said:

Excellent work. Done very well!  

Thanks Gus, it is nice to be sitting out doing astroimaging during the day.

[xtreemchaos]

great first animation mate, well done.  charl.

[Dave Smith]

That is a great start. The only trouble with animations - you don't know in advance if anything is going to happen. I find this site very useful for showing active regions.

 https://www.raben.com/maps

Dave

[GreatAttractor]

GONG is also useful. It can show a time lapse of the past few hours' activity, so you'll know if something new is happening and it's time to move the scope.

[MarsG76]

Awesome

[tooth_dr]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I’m going to try to do more of these, really brings astro imaging alive. I’ll Barlow a bit more next time too. 

[Lowjiber]

Great work.  I like it a lot.  Thanks much.

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