Debo Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 I captured the data a couple of days ago, poor quality and got just 30 mins worth before the high clouds rolled in. A rather short and decidedly iffy time lapse 🥴 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altocumulus Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Nonetheless, very entertaining. As a matter of interest, how did you do this? I was looking at the proms this morning and was tempted to try an animation. Does one take a number snapshots, or bunch of frames? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craney Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 That could become very mesmeric if the plasma starts to shift around. Is this taken with a Quark ?? Sean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debo Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 56 minutes ago, Altocumulus said: As a matter of interest, how did you do this? Hi Geoff, I captured a 10 second avi (circ 1000 frames) once every 30 seconds for around half an hour, used the Autorun feature in FireCapture. Stacked the avis to create forty individual images, sharpened and added some colour. Then recombined the images into a GIF using PIPP. All very tedious, there's probably a much better way of doing it 🤔 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debo Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Craney said: Is this taken with a Quark ?? Hi Sean, Yes it's a Quark and a 130mm refractor (with external ERF) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altocumulus Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Thanks Den, that's more or less what I expected - but as you say a little tedious. I had a quick look in Sharpcap to see how something similar would be done - but I chickened out as the seeing was rather poor this morning. Now if only AS3 could add colour at the end of the stacking stage! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmo39 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 V good. I tried to do that today but mine is not worth showing but I did learn a lot. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debo Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 14 minutes ago, simmo39 said: but I did learn a lot Me too, you need patience (which I haven't got) and decent spell of clear weather with good seeing (which I didn't have). 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Still some detail there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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