Solar Activity: August 3, 2022
September 2022 :
Animation of solar filament taken on August 3, 2022
Date taken: Aug 3, 2022
Equipment used: Lunt 60mm H-alpha scope on Celestron AVX mount.
ZWO ASI 174mm Camera
Process:
1. a 300 frame, 16 bit video was taken every 1 minute for 1½ hours. Each frame was 1920 x 1200 pixels in size.
2. This produced 69 separate video files.
3. Each file was processed using Autostakkert. Only 20 of the best frames were stacked and sharpened by Autostakkert.
Some images were discarded due to clouds.
4. Each image was processed in Astro Art.
a. the image were aligned using IMPPG software.
b. The images were enhanced in Astro Art using:
1) Gamma & white point modifications
2) Unsharp masking
3) Histogram stretching
5. The images were resized smaller.
6. All images were strung together into a single video file using PIPP.
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