Prominences Only

 

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20070503

17h45-20h01 UT
Realised with a Toucam Pro, B&W sensor and 2x barlow, 10 fps, integration 100 frames, 1 image every 50,
Registration and AVI output Registax4, Cropping VirtualDub, Colorisation + gif output Aviedit

Fluorite 100/900 PerlVixen, SolarMax90, 2x & 2" Televue Barlow, mounted on LX200 12".

20051011

Large prominence !
Download in Low or High contrast
Realised with a Toucam Pro, B&W sensor and 2x barlow 1012-1206UT 1 image every 20s
Registration Astrosnap + Registax3, Cropping VirtualDub
20050908

09h28m23s-09h31m44s UT
Clic on one of the links below...
(Divx6 codec) not very good quality
110Ko
(HuffYUV codec) 2Mo, Best quality color
Animated Hires color (gif )!


Later still image showing sunspot 798 : 10h43m12s UT
See processing here

 

20050622


1034-1443UT


20050621


1029-1145UT

1606-1822UT

20050610


0910-1212UT


1337UT
The Monster


1738-1757UT
Disgusting :)

20050528

Fluo100/900, reduc .5, TUC-B&W-raw, 1fpm

20050401

20050315    
20050227

Most spectacular  !

~1020UT
Clic here for
 Highest Quality
Codec HuffYUV 6.6Mo **

Clic here for
Normal Quality

Codec Divx5.2.1, 118Ko

20050226

20050113

20050110


Parameters and Explanations

AVI

Except otherwise posted, all movies are captured at St Rémy lès Chevreuse, France

Related still images (clic for large ones)

20070503

16h26 UT, 1 min capture


Realised with a Toucam Pro, B&W sensor and 2x barlow, 10 fps, Registax4,

Fluorite 100/900 PerlVixen, SolarMax90, 2x & 2" Televue Barlow, mounted on LX200 12".

20050908

Sunspot 798
coming back !

More still images 1 2 3 (time written on image UT+2)

Magnetic Arches following a huge X17+ flare which occured on the 09/07.
Original capture rate is 1 saved image every 20s.

The poster on the right shows the processing of the still image in PSP :

1) Original output AVI image (resulting of internal addition of 100 with negative guiding on sunspot in Astrosnap)
2) multiplication of the image by itself, divisor 20 to improve the low intensity prominence
3) multiplication of the image by itself, divisor 250 to improve the high intensity disk surface
4) Image 3 is glued on image 2 but without fusion, then using the rubber with this configuration and care, the lower layer appears slowly as shown (half done)
5) resulting B&W image
6) colorisation, slight sharpening and slight contrast increase.

After the colored image is loaded in Neat-Image for noise reduction.

200 000 km wide prominence

20050621

Automatic day long capture setup :

Autoguiding = // on LX200 GPS 12" with astrosnapPro on a sun spot with refractor 60/700, VestaPro BW CCD (RAW mode, manual settings) and white light visual solar filter.

Capture = // on LX200 GPS 12" with astrosnapPro , Fluorite PerlVixen 100/900, Coronado SM90, ToUcam Pro BW CCD (RAW mode, automatic settings) and optical part of Meade apo 2x barlow,

AstrosnapPro in correlation mode, LRBG setting, integration 100 frms, filter 140.

The Monster

20050610

Eruptive Prominence

20050227

When I installed the Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90 just after the Sun was in view of my location, I did not expect such a view ! Is was really spectacular. Istarted racing to put the vestaPro and parameter AstrosnapPro ! Images in integration mode (50 frames at 10fps) with the B&W sensor modified ToucamPro, adding automatically 1 frame to the AVI every 50 frames for more than an hour the clouds became more and more numerous rendering the work very difficult. In the long and complete version you will see that the begining of the AVI  is not live convoluted then the rest is. If you are interested in precise timing here are the rush AVI  file and the text only data-file 

Sun Disk, Filaments & Prominences

20050226

Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90.
AstrosnapPro in integration mode (200 frames at 5fps) with the B&W  ToucamPro + contrast baader filter, aligning and adding automatically 1 frame to the AVI every 100 frames for about 80 min. AVI has been realigned in Registax3 and save in maximum mode then colorized using the process color functions of Aviedit & matrix enhanced (4-3). About 120 frames (original AVI is 126 frames from 10:45:46 every 37s but some clouds made a hole of a few frames).

 

Whirlpool Prominence

 20050110

A not so quiet prominence ! Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90.
Looking at the telescope, there was not much to see... it was really steady ! Nevertheless as it was not so small, I decided to make an animation in case it would change ! I used AstrosnapPro in integration mode (200frames at 10fps) with the B&W sensor modified ToucamPro, adding automatically 1 frame to the AVI every 200 frames for about 2 hours. The lens of the 2x Apo Meade Barlow was screwed in front of the BF15. Later AVI has been colorized using the process color functions of Aviedit (blue to 0, green to 30%) and exported as new AVI and Gif. On the right, a single image from the animation.