Time-Lapse prominence from 31 May 2021

[Hughsie]

Second time-lapse this time from Monday 31st May 2021.

 

The GIF is represented by 150 x 500 frame video with a 60s gap between each recording. Best 25% of each 500 frame video was stacked in AS3! to create 150 TIF images which were then processed through PixInsight, ImPPG and PIPP.

 

Following equipment was used;

• Lunt 50mm THa/B1200CPT.
• ZWO ASI174mm camera.
• SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro.
• 5x Tele Vue Powermate.
• SharpCap Pro.

 

The prominence was positioned on the south western limb and I commenced capturing 07:21 and finished 09:27 UT.

Edited June 2, 2021 by Hughsie
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[Mr Spock]

That's a nice animation, it shows just how these things move.

[Rusted]

Nice detail and animation.

Which software do you use for your animation?

[Hughsie]

1 hour ago, Rusted said:

Nice detail and animation.

Which software do you use for your animation?

• I use SharpCap Pro for acquiring ser video files.
• Autostakkert3! where I stack the ser files to create TIF images.
• TIF images are taken into PixInsight where I crop, sharpen, colour the images and tinker with them. PixInsight allows you to work on one image then batch process the lot with the processing settings you used on the single image - less hard work
• Then from PixInsight I load the processed TIF’s into the free software ImPPG. Here they are aligned with each other.
• I then review each TIF and delete any bad frames.
• Finally, the TIF’s are loaded into the free software PIPP, I then select the Animation Tab and Output Tabs and choose the video format I want, frame rate and where to save the file then select process and its done.

[Rusted]

Thanks for the thorough description.

I have a folder full of potential animations with equally spaced AVI captures.
I'm using 8 bit AVIs out of SharpCap instead of SER. Is this a problem or a free choice?

Autostakkert batch processing the AVIs to 16 bit Tiffs.
Then straight on to ImPPG batch processing.
I tried Alignment but nothing seemed to happen.

The "last" stage was making an animation with the ImPPG output.
I couldn't see how to do it in GIMP. I'm not good at remembering microscopic symbols.
I'll have another look at PIPP.

[Hughsie]

2 hours ago, Rusted said:

Then straight on to ImPPG batch processing.
I tried Alignment but nothing seemed to happen.

Ser or AVI, it’s a personal choice.
ImPPG is really fussy about alignment. The GIF above is a fraction of the actual size and is heavily cropped. Try and crop the TIF files and see if that works. The smaller amount of TIF data the better. Also, you could try aligning on the disc. Personally I think this produces a slightly worse result but is an option as a last resort.

[Rusted]

Thank you, yet again, for your expert guidance.
I searched for "astro animations" on YT but couldn't find anything relevant.

Once I have a working system I shall practice endlessly to polish my skills.
It's not as if there is any shortage of cloudy moments between captures.

[Rusted]

18 hours ago, Hughsie said:

Second time-lapse this time from Monday 31st May 2021.

 

The GIF is represented by 150 x 500 frame video with a 60s gap between each recording. Best 25% of each 500 frame video was stacked in AS3! to create 150 TIF images which were then processed through PixInsight, ImPPG and PIPP.

 

Following equipment was used;

• Lunt 50mm THa/B1200CPT.
• ZWO ASI174mm camera.
• SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro.
• 5x Tele Vue Powermate.
• SharpCap Pro.

 

The prominence was positioned on the south western limb and I commenced capturing 07:21 and finished 09:27 UT.

Second time-lapse this time from Monday 31st May 2021.

 

The GIF is represented by 150 x 500 frame video with a 60s gap between each recording. Best 25% of each 500 frame video was stacked in AS3! to create 150 TIF images which were then processed through PixInsight, ImPPG and PIPP.

 

Following equipment was used;

• Lunt 50mm THa/B1200CPT.
• ZWO ASI174mm camera.
• SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro.
• 5x Tele Vue Powermate.

 

Whoops! I have just discovered your initial post had very useful but "invisible" text.
Can you see this text? I can only see it when I swipe the cursor over it to highlight it.

[Hughsie]

38 minutes ago, Rusted said:

searched for "astro animations" on YT but couldn't find anything relevant.

Here is the link to Chucks Astrophotography channel on YouTube where he talks about this method. I’m no expert but I’m an expert copier!