First Solar animation

[PeterM]

First animation attempt, hope this plays. Thanks to Martin for his recent excellent guide and Houghy for his words of wisdom.

Beaten by cloud so it's only about 8 minutes of capture, but it gave me some insight as to what I am up against. This is heavily cropped to get under 200kb but it's shows some change in the proms, so I am happy with this start.

Bear in mind also that this is taken on a Celestron SE4 mount in Alt Az mode... no autoguiding, with Lunt 60mm SS / Powermate 2.5X and ZWO174MM.

I have just bought a second hand Hinode Solar guider and should have next week but have to rethink a mount with an autoguide port.

Thanks for looking.

[Martin_S]

Well done Peter, that's a great result for a first animation. The Hinode autoguider works great if you download the software and run it on your computer. It gives you a lot more information.



Martin

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Great stuff, pretty good result for first animation....I know how difficult it can be!!
Keep up the good work.

[Saturn488]

That's amazing, just 8 minutes as well!

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

Peter,
Spectacular sequence of solar flares in motion.
Great work.

Anth

[Eris (Gerard)]

Great effort Peter. A very interesting result. Well done.

[PeterM]

Thanks all, muchly appreciated. If I didn't have the knowledge I have been freely given here in recent weeks I would not have even attempted this. It's early days and I now have some more ideas on how I can kick this along.
No more now till next week, family, work and a weekend at Leyburn chasing stars that explode!