Quick shot of small active region and short timelapse of tall prom

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Quick shot of small active region and short timelapse of tall prom

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Clouds and seeing both conspired today, but still fun to get out and try. Just a quick image of the small active region, and then a timelapse of about 20 minutes on that taller prom. Seeing took its toll, as did having to get it the animation online (seems like everything that would allow it to play in the post itself hurts the quality, not sure if there is a better way to embed a playing gif in a post?), but still some minor activity visible in the prom. Just squint your eyes really hard as you watch it and it kinda comes into better focus, lol.

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Hi, the animation is just great. It's breathtaking. I've seen this prominence in Lunt 50, but 100mm is fantastic!


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Great animation Ivan.


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Amazing image and animation, your animations are always so smooth :bow :movie

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Lovely animation Ivan, absolutely stunning. Imaged it too but not a clue how to do animation apart from getting the captures. Thanks for sharing.


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Ivan:
Super animation.
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Superb animation! :bow

My wife said it looks like a devil. :o


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Lots going on there. Excellent animation.

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Very dramatic ! Well done.

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I agree with Rusted passing his wife's comment as i would call it a "Fiery Three Legged Devil"
Well done on your effort in this animation

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Just love the animation and images

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Montana wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:47 pm Amazing image and animation, your animations are always so smooth :bow :movie

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Thanks! Since I'm not doing scientific level quality of imaging, I go more for the 'artistic' approach. My timelapses usually come out to about 12 frames per second, which is kind of choppy, so I like to smooth them out using 'video frame rate interpolation'. For those not familiar with it, its a process where video software looks at 2 frames and 'guesses' what would be in a missing in-between frame, then creates it. So if something is at 'point 1' in the first frame, and at 'point 3' in the second frame, it assmumes in that missing in-between frame that the thing would be at 'point 2', and makes a frame with those pixels at the 'guessed' location point. So you can take something that is only at 12 fps and bump it up to 30, 60, or any number of frames per second.

Its not good scientifically, because its 'creating' info/data rather than showing only the info/data actually captured, but for me it makes things easier to see and track when watching the flow if things are smoother. Plus, I'm all ready heavily altering the data by colorizing it/sharpening it, etc., so I figure that last step of interpolating the video up to a higher and smoother framerate isn't any more of an egregious sin than everything else I do to torture the poor data:)


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Stardust5858 wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:23 pm Lovely animation Ivan, absolutely stunning. Imaged it too but not a clue how to do animation apart from getting the captures. Thanks for sharing.
I used this video as my starting point for doing timelapses. It uses pixinsight for much of the single frame processing prior to making the timelapse, but you can use many programs like photoshop or gimp to do the same pre-processing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXijbjkclMc

The basic gist though is that you take your videos at whatever interval you like and for as long as you like (I like to do 1 every 30 seconds for an hour). You then batch process those videso into single images using autostakkert. Once you have your series of images, you process them to your liking (doing things like batch aligning them in IMPPG, sharpening them, colorizing them, etc), then using a number of programs you join all of those images into either an AVI/mp4 video, or into a GIF, and you have a timelapse!


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