Valery wrote:Gabor,
First of all, I do not use a HaT telescope with coated corrector. Opposite, I do use an optional D-ERF filter which is installed in a front of corrector of the C11 280mm telescope.
To make animation(s) one need:
1. Good mount which is well polar aligned to exclude constant sun movement across the FOV or it will need constantly correct sun position in the FOV
2. Certain amount of patience (I am not such sort of person)
3. Good seeming during certain amount of time (1-2-3 hours) which is problematic even with 150mm apertures not say about larger instruments.
This is a rare coincidence, I believe and I saw a few animations by Jean Pierre Brahic with his excellent 230mm refractor and two animations by our fiend Mark Townley with his C8 HaT telescope.
Upon request by Apollo Lasky, I will prepare a short animation of the AR12529 sun spot area I photographed April 12.
May be it will show something interesting.
In a near future I will permanently install my C14 telescope and possibly will tray to time-lapse some interesting features on the sun. But not right now.
Valery
You can do it that way, or, my way
1) Plonk the mount down outside pointing it roughly north and then use the Hinode solar guider to compensate for my poor polar alignment.
2) Start firecapture recording using the autorun feature, go inside the house, make a coffee and have some breakfast. In post processing use batch process in ImPPG and image processor in CS6 to automatically create the animation.
3) I never even have clear skies that long!
Just record what there is and see what comes out.
To be fair, and these apertures you can record changes in seconds so you don't need to be exposing for long.
I think animations will be one way of making blank bits of sun appear quite interesting in the years ahead in solar minimum, which is why I want to practice this craft now.
