11/04/2020 Solar Ha Timelapse

[SiriusDoggy]

 

[andy fearn]

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Amazing. thanks for posting. don't have equipment for such images so always a great pleasure to look at .😀

[SiriusDoggy]

Thanks!

[Stu]

That is amazing, I agree!

[MarkAR]

Brilliant.

[tooth_dr]

That’s class.  I’ve been trying something similar - how do you track the sun?

[SiriusDoggy]

7 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

That’s class.  I’ve been trying something similar - how do you track the sun?

Tooth_Dr,  I use a Hinode Solar Guider on the telescope/mount. It's a pretty darn expensive piece of kit and not 100% necessary if you can get a really good polar alignment.  

The real trick is the batch "align images" feature in the freeware program ImPPG. It's kinda hidden under one of the menu options and takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work but when it does, it's just brilliant. 

If you are interested, I could walk you guys through my step by step process.

[tooth_dr]

53 minutes ago, SiriusDoggy said:

Tooth_Dr,  I use a Hinode Solar Guider on the telescope/mount. It's a pretty darn expensive piece of kit and not 100% necessary if you can get a really good polar alignment.  

The real trick is the batch "align images" feature in the freeware program ImPPG. It's kinda hidden under one of the menu options and takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work but when it does, it's just brilliant. 

If you are interested, I could walk you guys through my step by step process.

I’ve seen a programme online that claims to guide on a whole solar disc, and I have a finderguider with Baader solar foil attached to my solar scope, but I could not find it again yesterday when I searched for it!

When I have my 3x Barlow on it tracks ok, but slowly drifts off course.

If you would share your workflow that would be really really appreciated.  I’ve 100+ prom videos to stack and align from yesterday

[SiriusDoggy]

12 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

 

If you would share your workflow that would be really really appreciated.  I’ve 100+ prom videos to stack and align from yesterday

I've posted my how-to video in the Image Processing and Techniques section.

Edited April 13, 2020 by SiriusDoggy