Solar Activity: June 20, 2022
July 2022 :
Animation of solar filament taken on June 20, 2022
Date taken: June 20, 2022
Equipment used: Lunt 60mm H-alpha scope on Celestron AVX mount.
ZWO ASI 174mm Camera
Process:
1. a 200 frame, 16 bit video was taken every 2 minute for 3 hours. Each frame was 1920 x 1200 pixels in size.
2. This produced 64 separate video files. One was unusable due to clouds.
3. Each file was processed using Autostakkert. Only 20 of the best frames were stacked and sharpened by Autostakkert.
This produced 63 separate images.
4. Each image was processed in Astro Art.
a. the image was cropped to concentrate just on the filament.
b. From the first image, a reference point on the filament was determined.
d. For the remaining images, they were shifted accordingly so that the filaments would match.
Finally, all images were strung together and colorized into a single video file using Astro Art.
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