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A solar "filaprom"
A filaprom is a solar prominence that snakes its way over the limb (edge, in the photo) of the Sun -- as at mid- to lower-left in this photo.
There's also a nice sunspot or two and a moderately large active region (mid- to upper-right in this photo. I think these are sunspots 1344 and 1341.
Photo made using a 640x680 monochrome camera from The Imaging Source, and one of 3RF's 90mm Coronado h-alpha solar scopes at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus.
Only the upper half of this photo has been post-processed. This represents the best of about 900 frames (about one third) of one of 4 AVI files I shot this morning. A full-up processing run on each of these files takes the laptop about 30 minutes, so more files are to come later today or perhaps in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning(!).
Nice Sun today, for sure~
Processing details: Registax V4, with 13 alignment points spread mostly along the filaprom and a few scattered among the active region ... basically the upper half of the image. Limited to half the aligned frames per alignment point (about 470 of 907 for each) with a 50-frame created reference frame processed with minimally agressive Gaussian wavelets.
Version that's processing now uses about 1/3rd of the available frames, with 29 alignment points spread across the middle third of the image, and roughly twice as aggressive Gaussian wavelets. Should make a nice comparison.
A solar "filaprom"
A filaprom is a solar prominence that snakes its way over the limb (edge, in the photo) of the Sun -- as at mid- to lower-left in this photo.
There's also a nice sunspot or two and a moderately large active region (mid- to upper-right in this photo. I think these are sunspots 1344 and 1341.
Photo made using a 640x680 monochrome camera from The Imaging Source, and one of 3RF's 90mm Coronado h-alpha solar scopes at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus.
Only the upper half of this photo has been post-processed. This represents the best of about 900 frames (about one third) of one of 4 AVI files I shot this morning. A full-up processing run on each of these files takes the laptop about 30 minutes, so more files are to come later today or perhaps in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning(!).
Nice Sun today, for sure~
Processing details: Registax V4, with 13 alignment points spread mostly along the filaprom and a few scattered among the active region ... basically the upper half of the image. Limited to half the aligned frames per alignment point (about 470 of 907 for each) with a 50-frame created reference frame processed with minimally agressive Gaussian wavelets.
Version that's processing now uses about 1/3rd of the available frames, with 29 alignment points spread across the middle third of the image, and roughly twice as aggressive Gaussian wavelets. Should make a nice comparison.