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SUN
MOON
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VENUS
MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS-NEPTUNE
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Sun |
H-Alpha Flares and
sunspots
20050506~16TU
After looking at those time selected shows just
below, don't miss the full length AVI (1H40), explanations, related
graphs and files, how to and story...
Just click here ! |
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Arches post flare above,
click on image for full size ! |
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Flare Maximum above ,
click on image for full size !
click here for lighter version in
GIF |
20050613
Sunspot 775 followed at high resolution
for 7 hours (1206-1906UT) !! Some images darkened by passing clouds have
been removed. !!! ATTENTION 20Mo
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Solar waves !
20050501
20050115a (being
processed)
 
20050115b need special Codec
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It is not Divx but HUFFYUV see instruction
section or french
Notes
20050116b
See
explanations below ! |
Prominences
20050610-0910-1212UT
"Monster" Prominence
20050610-1337UT
Some time later...Really disgusting :)
20050610-1738-1757UT
Fluo100/900 reduc .5, TUC-B&W-raw, 1fpm
20050110
Right : Most spectacular !
The first minutes captured
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20050227h
Highest Quality
Codec HuffYUV
6.6Mo** |
20050227d
Normal Quality
Codec
Divx5.2.1
118Ko |
See explanations below
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H-Alpha
disk
20050511
Flare only...
Long colorised version
with Sun rotation visible !
Long High Contrast BW version
with Sun rotation visible !
See explanations below
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20050207
See explanations
below ! |
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Moon |
click on Lunar Halo animated image
for good quality
GIF astromovie
or lower file size in Divx
or for large file size , best resolution and color richness in HuffYUV
**(16Mo)
See explanations below
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Asap reworking of each individual image to correct luminosity variations
due to atmospherical conditions and due
See explanations below
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Full screen Moon Promenade
2005/03/15 (13.5Mo)
Must be seen with repeat mode activated !
Keep it as an animated wallpaper
:)
See explanations below ! |
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Good quality
15Mo
(divx1Kbs)
Highest quality :
21Mo (divx4Kbs) |
20050320
See explanations below
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Giant full screen Terminator Promenade 2005/03/16
(15.5Mo)
Must be seen with repeat mode activated
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Keep it as an animated wallpaper :)
See explanations below
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20050323. (11.6Mo).
This is a movie done by simply moving the telescope around with the
handset. As you can see the effect is not at all the same as in the previous
movies realised from a large mosaic with Pano2Avi. Because of the effect
of seeing, there is no more the feeling to be in orbit around the Moon
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Full screen Gibbous Moon Promenade
2005/04/18-1730UT (4Mo)
Must be seen with repeat mode activated !
Keep it as an animated wallpaper :)
See explanations
below ! |
Full screen Gibbous Moon Promenade
2005/04/18-1730UT (4Mo)
COLOR
Must be seen with repeat mode activated !
Keep it as an animated wallpaper :)
See explanations
below ! |
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Venus
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Coming in UV light |
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Mars
Opposition 2003 |
See explanations below
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See explanations below
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Jupiter |
20050403-04 :
GRS transit &
Io eclipse partially its shadow
(click on Jupiter for Divx, 0.5Mo)
See explanations below
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Highest
quality in
HuffYUV** (4Mo)
Lower
quality in animated GIF (2Mo) |
20050403-04 :
GRS transit &
Io eclipse partially its shadow
(click on Jupiter for Divx, 0.4Mo)
Unprocessed capture, click here
See explanations below
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Download original unprocessed avi below :
First
half : 800 frames=9Mo
Full
original :1648 frames=20Mo
See explanations
below ! |
2005/03/01
The full transit of the GRS !
Quality is just acceptable as seeing changed rapidly with also lots of light
clouds passing by ...
See explanations below
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Saturn |
See explanations below
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20050209-Satellites-105min
See explanations below
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Astromovie above is more than 3 hours ... but if we
could see Saturn during 2 days non stop we could make this kind of nicer
astromovie simulation
(Cartes du Ciel
from 2005031300->2005031600) |
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Uranus & Neptune |
20040819-Uranus
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20040819-Neptune |
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Satellites & Meteors |
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Transit of Venus
20040608 |
Full Sun
H-Alpha
White-light
See explanations below
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(Détails webcam ! Cliquez sur les * pour les
temps exacts.)
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H-Alpha close-ups with webcam.
Large digits for precise contacts.
Click on * for associated detailled time table.
See explanations below
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2 days before ! |
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Mercury &
Transit of |
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See explanations below
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Other |
Moon, stars, Pleiades, setting on 20050412 late evening...
click on this lowres animation for full screen (1024*768-400Ko) astromovie
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See explanations below
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AVI |
Except otherwise posted, all movies are captured
at St Rémy lès Chevreuse, France |
Related still images |
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20050511
13:50 to 17:30UT
First
Sun full-disk astromovie |
On the 20050511 I made a first trial to do
a color astromovie of the full-disk. This is not easy work as instead of
using the webcam, I have to use the Canon 10D. Genarally I was using the
optical part of the 2X Meade barlow but as it is difficult to have it optically
aligned with the only one screw on the Coronado diagonal, I used this time
a kenko teleplus 300 1.4x. Moreover, the wield is wider and vignetting is
not present. The shading visible on the AVI is only because it was taken
not long before sunset. Otherwise as usual : Perl-Vixen Fluo
102/900 in // on LX200-12", Coronado SM/TM90. I took one image every 2 min
as images from 10:51 to 17:30. Thereafter, the Sun disappeared behind trees...On
that astromovie I selected just a mall part with a little flare in the C
range on the top left spot. I appreciated very much the help of Guy Buhry
for writing a special script to enhance nicely
the original pictures (0.3s at 400ISO)
in which the green and blue layers are used to convey the disk and prominence
information. See also the active prominences on the lower right. Those interested
can look at the long version
where you can see : the Sun rotation, prominences
appearing on the right limb and vanishing on the west one.
There is also a BW version processed to mimic the aspect of professional
satellites observations as seen at
ISOON
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During the flare ... |
My most exciting solar
flare |
On the 2005/05/06 early afternoon, the weather
got rather nice with just few sparsed clouds. I begun watching the Sun in
HAlpha at about 12UT. I used the same equipment (Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900
in // on LX200-12", Coronado SM/TM90, VestaPro N&B RAW, 2x Barlow) as
usually. The seeing was rather good . It was obvious tha the famous 756 sunspot
was decaying and that the 758 one was very active ! I started soon making
pictures and from that time to sunset was glued to my chair ...
see the one just on the right and click on it
for a larger version.
I then started making AVIs all around in order to prepare
a future mosaic (asap). The
GOES X-ray flux page
with 1min resolution was in permanence visible on a the screen
of another PC next by. Well it was rather flat and I went for a quick
lunch and an hour walk... I came back at 16UT and rushed the the monitor
just to see on this GOES graph that
a C1-flare had started a few min ago ! Well to bad I thought :( But I saw
that the curve was not falling down sharply and this fact gave me hope at
least for a nice show yet and maybe a new surge. A couple of min later, recording
was on ! The seeing condition at this late hour were far from good. You can
see a little "live" movie if you click
here in a little
movie going up to the limb, the motors of the mount beeing stopped and the
Sun then drifting towards West. Indeed the slope went slowly up again at
a steady rate... I was thinking : will it reach the M class ? Finally no,
it went up to C9 only ! But it was rather unusual as the up and later down
slopes were not steep. This gave a remarquable long lasting show ! You can
see it all on the whole Sun (Credit GOES) with high resolution
here and
also see the global orientation on their still image if you click here. Also Thierry Legault made
a mouthwatering single image with the full size SBIG CCD at 17:05 UT, time
of the maximum, click here to see
it !
On the 2 astromovies shown above and also in
this
one showing the whole sequence, all the bad frames resulting from
passing clouds and resulting obscurity or very bad seeing have been removed.
Complete movies with very precise timing of each image (and all the missing
bad frames) are available.
This astromovie is dedicated to the
people who have helped improving the webcams (inventing webcam with
astronymy power, B&W CCD,
RAW mode...), to Axel
Canicio for his precious AstrosnapPro
software, to Cor for his great registering software
Registax3 with which export of a non
jerking AVI , to the authors of
VirtualDub and
Aviedit and finally to Fabrice and all
the friends who have helped me for my HAlpha
setup.
Capture details : Camera at 10fps auto mode
to accept slight changing nebulosity, AstrosnapPro in 100 frames integration
mode - the secret for killing bad seeing, flux mode, LRVB monochrome, live
deconvolution 100, internal guiding correlation value 10 on rather stable
but changing dots ! , one image added to AVI every 5sec, HUFFyuv lossless
compression. |
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HAlpha Sun
with surprise !! |
Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90, VestaPro
N&B RAW, Date/hour : 2005/05/01 from 16:05:42 at 0.1fps. Capture at 10fps
with AstrosnapPro. Images integrated /convoluted continuously in APro into
a 10 frame buffer. 1 frame automatically added to AVI every cycle. Final
processing : Virtualdub, Colorisation with aviedit. Compressed with divx
5.2.1. at 60fps...
The plane seems to be
a Cessna 75
or
Citation X executive Jet
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Thanks for the help ! |
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Gibbous Moon |
Full screen Gibbous Moon Promenade 2005/04/18
(5Mo).
Mosaic of 3 images automatically done by
autostitch !
Each composed of less that 10 images taken with the Canon10D at 200ISO
& 1/80s. LX200 12" at main focus (FD10).
Astromovie done with Pano2Avi v0.6.
Color version in PSD on the 3 original images
(bad results on the .JPG mosaic) :
Load image / duplicate layer / use original layer as luminance.
{ on the 2nd layer do 20 times the sequence CTRL-U+tab+30+RETURN then gaussian
10}.Save as best quality progressive JPG.
Do the mosaic with Autostitch. The load it into Pano2AVI
v0.6. Parameters are easy to set. Save as AVI using HuffYUV or DIVX codec.
To display directly a reduced version on a web page do : load AVI into
Virtualdub, in video options select filters /add/reduction 2:1 two times
(here) + compression huffyuv, save as new AVI. Open AVI in PSP animator,
decimate by how much you want, then reduce size further if needed and save
as animated GIF.
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Moon, Pleiades setting... |
First trial to
be improved : Canon10D on tripod, old Lentar 28 mm lens, 30x15s , 400 ISO,
CRW-exposures, interval 25s allowing plenty of time for internal saving.
CRW batch resized to 1024*768 and transformed into JPG with Irfanview1.95
then Virtualdub-V1.64+ can read the JPG-batch. Levels and many more parameters
can be modified. Final saving into divx AVI (AVI can later be loaded in PSP
animation shop for making a small low resolution animated GIF) |
20050412
0036-0046UT
Io exit Jupiter shadow |
Io in the shadow of Jupiter appearing slowly ...
AstrosnapPro, integration of 200 images with internal guiding & correlation
on 10, one shot every about 7s. For better visibility, level adjusted in
VirtualDub. |
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20050403-04
Particular transit of IO and GRS on Jupiter
very rare event ! |
It was a very rare opportunity to watch/capture
the simultaneous transit of the GRS and of Io, moreover eclipsing partially
its own shadow (not round as usual) ! This event was permitted by the fact
that it was the day of opposition of Jupiter for 2005 !
With the help of Astrosnap in flux mode, a huge set
of color images
(~32000**, 900Mo,
416*312 pixels) have been captured automatically in JPG format with
the TUCam Pro in manual mode. An AVI could have been made but in case of
system failure would have been lost entirely ! Interval was 5 min,
each sequence was 90s long. Unhappilly, some passing clouds have restricted
the number of usable images in some sequences... the resulting composite
image is then more noisy. It took a few days processing all the images with
a 2.1Ghz PC as follows :
Using the JPG saved time as reference, all the images of each sequence (about
700) were loaded in Virtualdub1.64 (new version accepting JPGs), if present
bad images (noisy + dark when clouds) were eliminated and remaining ones
save into an uncompressed AVI. This AVI was fully
processed/registered/wavelet-enhanced with Registax3. 45 unsable BMPs were
saved. They were easily re-registered for fluidity with AstrosnapPro. Virtualdub
transformed the still images into a new AVI (in lossless HuffYUV, divx521)
; Also a gif version was done for easy publication. The span is about four
hours ! If you want to see all the individual images, just reopen the AVI
with virtualdub.
** The real number was more than 45000 ... until
daylight but the last thousands of pictures with no sign of Jupiter
have been erased ! |
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Lunar Halo
20050325 |
At about 02:20UT in light fog,a large serie of
exposures times have been taken for this animation from 0.006s to 1s with
the Canon 10D and 75-300 zoom lens + teleextender 1.4x at 100 ISO in order
to be able to show a correctly exposed Moon and its much less brighter
surroundings. The camera was mounted on an equatorial motorised mount.
At right clicking on the image links to a full size
high resolution composite created with 1s, .8s and 0.006s
exposures. |
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Vertical Giant Terminator Promenade |
Realised with dedicated software (see Moon Promenade
below).
Same conditions of capture too but 14 images. |
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Giant Terminator
Promenade
20050316 |
Realised with dedicated software (see Moon Promenade
just below). Same conditions of capture too but 24 images * (6*50
frames). |
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Moon Promenade
20050315 |
Realised with a special Windows software
Pano2AVI developed
by my friend Gilbert Grillot
which scans a large BMP (or JPG) picture and makes
a new serie of BMP (or JPG) of the size you want while translating
the window from the number of pixel you want.
Each image coming from an AVI of 7 images captured with AstrosnapPro from
20:16 to 20:38, each being the result of 100 frame integration/live registration.
Final registration with Registax3. The mosaic done with PSP as described
elsewhere in this site can be downloaded by clicking on the image at right.
LX200 12" at FD10, ToucamPro moded with B&W sensor. |
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Sun Disk |
Effects of opening/closing the TuneMax adaptor
on Coronado filters. When open the aspect is almost like in white light (but
see small ovals around penombra). When closed the H-Alpha world appears in
its splendor ! 20050319-12:36-12:47UT. click on image at right for a full
size one. Also see here
how a composite image does not really reflects reality when taken on a few
min range ! |
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Moon shadows
20050317-18 |
At first quarter jagged peaks of Caucasus mountain
range cast long shadows across the lava plains of Mare Imbrium (the
Sea of Rains). This movie shows them receding when the sun rises there !
Total watch from 19 to 01:20UT, allmost 6:30 hours ! Then the Moon was
too low in haze to capture anymore images. See best moments : click on image
at right. BTW I wonder how fast the temperature rised in thoses wird places
during my watch ? If you know please mail
me
LX200 12" at main focal point, ToucamProII B&W moded. Astrosnap Pro at
10 fps flux mode. Images integrated /convoluted continuously in APro into
a 50 frame buffer. 1 frame automatically added to AVI every 1 min. Further
aligned in Registax3 and saved as movie with the "maximum" option of the
stack window. Cropped and saved in divx 5 2 1 with virtualdub at 4000 kbps.
I appreciated to have this image published on
spaceweather.com
(2005/03/18) |
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Saturn
20041125a |
LX200 12", Toucam N&B RAW, Televue Powermate
5x (15m FL), 183 best images. On the right you have 2 links : the B&W
composite image with Registax3 and a color version realised with now 678
"eye" selected images from successive movies and the result of the color
movie with the ToUcam in low noise mode. |
AVI#49
N&B (Registax3dev)
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Saturn satellites
20050209
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20050314-15 |
LX200 12", due-heater, Toucam N&B RAW, (3m
FL), 103 images selected
Astrosnap integration 200 images with live registration & deconvolution,1
fpm. Realigned in Registax3 and saved as movie (in stack section) with "maximum"
option.
Image on right is a stack of all frames showing relative displacement.
click here for a sky map (created
with
Carte
du Ciel, Patrick Chevalley) and
here for a real picture at start time
of movie, both with included legend !
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LX200 12", FD 6.3 (focal reducer), Toucam N&B RAW, ~240 images selected
Astrosnap integration 100 images with live registration & deconvolution,1
fpm. Realigned in Registax3 and saved as movie (in stack section) with "maximum"
option. Almost same as above but mote than 3 hours... See full size composite
picture with legend
of times and satellites. |
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Jupiter
20050301-0257UT
Test your processing skills ! |
Jupiter (Avi25)captured 2005/03/01
between 02:56:38 and 02:58:38 UT
LX200 12", foam due-heater, ToucamProII color, 3x Televue Barlow (9m FL).
Astrosnap Pro at 15 fps. Aligned in Registax3 and saved as movie with "maximum"
option.
Cropped and saved in divx 5 2 1 with virtualdub at 1500 kbps.
Available complete movie or just the 800 first frames in original order (no
selection).
On the right you can see the result I obtained with Registax3 with the full
movie------>
*** : compression > divx 4000bps does not
destroy significantly final quality :) Full
original has been aligned in Registax (but train process as if not) :1648
frames=20Mo will give 250Mo . Once retranslated in Huffyuv. After processing
in Registax3 (with 256 pixel selection, optimizing to 1% with 10 pix, wavelet
processing & resizing to 50% - about 1 hour with 2GHz) and finishing
job in PSP this is the resulting
image
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Sun flares H-alpha
20040727a
20050115 a & b
20050116b |
20040727a
Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90, VestaPro
N&B RAW, Date/hour : 2004/07/24 12:15:25.677, Original compressed
to Divx. AVI 36.
20050115 a & b
Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Meade Apo Barlow 2x,
Coronado SM/TM90, VestaPro N&B RAW, Date/hour : 2005/01/15
141421-143023UT-2fpm. Capture at 5fps in camera auto mode with AstrosnapPro.
Images integrated /convoluted continuously in APro into a 100 frame buffer.
1 frame automatically added to AVI every cycle. Total 32 frames. Final processing
: Contrast, gamma in Virtualdub. Colorisation with aviedit. Compressed with
divx 5.2.1.
For 20050115a (sun spot 720), an X2 flare occured much
later (after 23 UT, during the night in France) as seen in this SOHO/EIT195
deep UV light
image.
For 20050115b (sun spot 718), as quality is not good
for full screen in divx same movie proposed in Huffyuv v2.1.1 (much larger
file 3.6Mo but Ok for full screen viewing. See site for downloading this
famous lossless codec). This flare on sun spot 718 has also been captured
by SOHO/EIT195 in deep UV light, see it
here.
It it to be noted that seeing was very poor all day
... see a 2 image animation of 720 sun spot
here .
Also you can see the increase of activity on this GEOS X-ray flux
(20040115).
20050116b
1531-1543UT (37 accumulated frames). Not as spectacular but for the record.
Small flare in 720. Also
here a raw image to show what
can be still done with slight overcasts. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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). |
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Venus-Transit
20040608
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Location of capture : 48° 14' 24s N, 02°
15' 12s E, alt 120m
H-Alpha ,
FULL SUN :
Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90, Canon 1OD, Transit of Venus in
(Original movie : 1fpmin with TC-N83 handset ; sorry some frames will not
show up in divx movie). On image here at right (linked to a large one)
prominences are reconstituted very far from the Sun as they appeared briefly
at the beginning of the transit.
H-Alpha , WEBCAM :
Perl-Vixen Fluo 102/900, Coronado SM/TM90,
VestaPro modified with B&W sensor and in RAW mode at main focus.
(*) The 2nd contact. Click
here
to access detailed time table
(**) The 4th contact. Click
here
to access detailed time table. The ~2 extra min of transit offered
by this wavelength : Venus as seen on chromosphere.
White light , FULL SUN :
LX200 10" Classic, Canon EOS 300D (id. Rebel), Astrosolar protection sheet.
Captured as successive BMPs controled by DLSR-Focus on a portable PC with
a forecasted rate of 1fpm (gaps are caused by some USB deconnexions from
time to time). Images later colorized for nicer appearance. |
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Mars opposition 2003
20030818-RVB
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Mars captured during 2003 extraordinary opposition
from the Sierra Nevada, Spain at 2500m !
LX200 10", unmod. color Toucam (RVB), Televue Barlox 3x (7.5m FL), extract
from 3 min capture.
Registered (Avi2bmp) LRVB link at right.
Time 02:33 |
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Mars opposition 2003
20030818-NB |
Mars captured during 2003 extraordinary opposition
from the Sierra Nevada, Spain at 2500m !
LX200 10", VestaPro N&B not RAW mode, Televue Barlox 3x (7.5m FL), extract
from 3 min capture.
Registered (Avi2bmp) LRVB link at right.
Time 02:43 |
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Mercury
20050312 |
LX200 12", Toucam N&B RAW, Televue Powermate
5x (15m FL), R21 Orange filter. On the right you have composite image with
Registax3. This evening Mercury was still near the Moon. See image published
on spaceweather.com, March 13, 2005 also
here. |
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