How to make solar animations
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2022
- How to use a solar telescope to make animations of changes on the Sun's surface. Animate solar flares, active sunspots, filaments, spicules and more.
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Great pictures and excellent guide for captures. I am a member of Bruce Sees All community.....good luck to you and your channel.
Great video! Probably, the best out there. Well done!
Great video! The steps are similar to how I do my Jupiter rotation animations so this is good reinforcement. Definitely worth a sub!
I'm expecting delivery of my Lunt 40 on Monday, can't wait!
I just subscribed yesterday , like your channel very helpful . I just started solar imaging got the Quark and you my ED-80 scope with a playerone cam with 9um pixel size. Anyway was following you tutorial on processing and my image looked better. The only thing is I could not figure out how to keep a nice sunspot. Maybe because it was close to the rim not sure . Thanks for the videos , look forward to more,
Fantastic video. You contribute so much to solar astrophotography. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Was always wondering how you guys did this. Good video.
Thank you!
Excellent, I am looking forward to trying this
Good luck!
Thank you so much! This will really help me with solar timelapses. I’m thinking that Hinode guider is the way I’m going to go
Glad it was helpful
Thank you for another great video. I deeply appreciate your knowledge and your ability to teach us solar astronomy. You never introduce yourself. What is your name
Hi Craig. I'm Mark Johnston!
Hi, I see different Lunt 100 models, incl the Lunt MT . I know that things can vary ( maybe difficult to say how they vary) in solar world. Which one of them you find the best for visual ? Thanks for sharing.
All the Lunt models are good. The more aperture you have the more details you will see. Also, double stack shows more surface details than single stack, but the image is a little dimmer. If you have a specific question let me know
I have a Lunt 130 mm scope double stack using a Canon 6 D camera. What do you recommend to get rid of newton rings? Thanks Kim I’m by
You need to tilt the plane of the camera with respect to optical train. Is it possible to loosen the camera connection and tilt it 1-2 degrees and retighten?
great video! What camera were you using?
QHY5III174
Is it possible to use this process with images taken on an Alt-Az mount?
Yes easily. In fact many of my solar images are taken with a TTS160 mount (alt az)
@@AZASTROGUY So ImPPG can do this or another of the software products you used?
@@johndwyer1095 Yes, assuming you're starting with a hydrogen alpha image
@@AZASTROGUY Yes, I am using H-a images. Thanks, I hope to give it a try if I don't get fried by the sun. I am in Green Valley south of Tucson.
This is a great video of "how-to". Do you every desire to have an auto focuser?
I have two autofocusers that I use for nighttime astrophotography. But I don’t believe they would be helpful for solar. Solar focusing is quite different and subtle.
@@AZASTROGUY Thank you for your rapid reply. The owner of MaRIO (Marathon Remote Imaging Observatories) will be purchasing a Lunt 152mm Solar Telescope in the next few days. I am putting together a part list for him. Marathon, TX is a high plains desert with low humidity with great seeing.
@@williamramey1959 I would recommend the Hinode solar guider. Not sure how to manage this in a remote setting but when there is excellent seeing a Televue 4x powermate would be great for closeups.
@@AZASTROGUY Thank you. I already had all the items you mentioned already on my part list! I am the overseer of MaRIO. I live on the premises. I also am thinking of the ZWO 294mm for high resolution and the ZWO ASI 174mm for streaming. Any comments are very appreciated!!!
@@williamramey1959 I’d recommend the QHY5iii174 over the ZWO version as It unlocks the offset function
Okay- But what's the app name?
Original captures are with Sharpcap Pro.
@@AZASTROGUY oh thanks!
The ImPGG tool almost never work with me. It doesnt align.
Really? It's never not worked for me. I'm curious what set up you're using to track on the Sun? I assume by 'not working' you are referring to the alignment tool in ImPPG, not the tone stretching and sharpening function?
@@AZASTROGUY Yes that align tool. Think about that I align with Sharpcap the mount the night prior for having less drift possible the day after but nope. To this day only 10% of attempts has gone fine (sorry for my lenguage) so I'm a bit discouraged right now and momentarely I quit timelapsing the Sun in H-alpha wich is the coolest thing of the entire astrophotographer arsenal.
It is not enough to simply run on an aligned mount. You must also do guiding on the sun. You have to use either a high note guider, Phd2o, or some other guiding mechanism to ensure the frames are very close to each other before you try to do an alignment with IMPPG.
@@AZASTROGUY Using the "sharpcap polar alignment the night prior" method I don't have any drift the entire sessions if not few pixels or movements by wind. ASICAP dont' have the cross intersection but I used to put the mouse arrow on a sun spot or alongside the limb
For istance, in the future, can I send you the processed frames, maybe 30 or 60 to align and try the alignment you personally?
Oh have you any problems in summer of overheating the sensor? After few captures personally it starts to rejects frame more and more until I have to cover tha aperture and re-run everything.
I have a dedicated double faced blanchet black one side and Mylar covered the other side.
@@MrMa1981 I don’t have problems with overheated sensors. You could add a sunshade to block the sun from hitting your camera. I am on vacation now but after June 15 you could send me a Dropbox link and I could try aligning some of your frames