Sun HA 1st June (various)

[Macavity]

Long time since I did any of this... Remembering how to "do stuff" etc.
Started around 8 a.m with an image of the whole disk - using Lunt50 SS:
(Right now the LAPTOP has decided to "update since the year dot"?) 🥳



Hopefully more stuff (80mm Frankenscope + Prom Animation) to come later? 😛

[xtreemchaos]

great disc Chris, i had a bit of vis thismorrning , that prom on the upper off going limb looked very nice. im cameraless at the moment so missing imaging. clear skys. charl.

[David Smith]

Good disk Chris. Good to see you back in the solar game again.

[Macavity]

Thanks, guys! Sorry to hear about that, Charl - I do look forward
to your regular Solar Updates! Hopoe you get a new Cam soon.

I did manage to stack the prom images used the default AS!3
image sharpener and then HAND aligned them for animation.
I sense there is room for improvement. But Intriguing anyway! 🥳

FWIW: Approx. 2hrs of data. 24 frames - Each frame a one minute "stack"! 😏
 

Edited June 2, 2020 by Macavity

[Macavity]

<shameless bump> BUT also, at the back of my mind, I had thought ImPPG had
a facility to align solar images for animations! So I asked the program to re-align
the component images from above - Tediously, and not so well "hand aligned"! 🙄

Clearly (as hoped) the program does rather better! Kudos Filip Szczerek (ImPPG) 😎
(I will now process the images "properly" rather than using quick AS!3 shapening!
Lockdown does concentrate the mind... Allows me to try things "I meant to" etc. 🥳



Proimence Animations are now "solved". But I have a question re. Animations:

My DISK animations often suffer with significant flicker. Mostly due to clouds
and contrails drifting over the Sun during hours of imaging. I sense  this could
be made a bit better by *normalising* the brightness of the images. Is  there a
program that can do this automatically?  --- Or at least rather better than ME! 😸

I suspect I'll have to "fix" the drift of my HEQ5 too! Tracking drift means that the
(now *very* faint!) residual Newton's Rings can be seen drifting over the result. 🤔

Edited June 11, 2020 by Macavity

[Macavity]

😸 In case anyone was "desperate" for a final result? I did get around
processing the images... I used Registax 6 Wavelets for what its worth!
I sense my focussing was a bit awry. Still using Lunt50 helical focuser. 🥳

I now note "How to do stuff" using EVERNOTE! (I finally got down to
"documenting stuff"... There had to be a use for bloomin' lockdown?) 🙄

Edited June 12, 2020 by Macavity

[David Smith]

Wow, awesome animation!

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured.