4 Hour Solar Time Lapse | Daystar Quark | Random Video Thursday's
This is some of my best astro work so far. And one of the neatest things I have captured in the hobby. It was a lot of work. 4 hours baby sitting the mount and around another 4 hours to process and turn images into a video. It was around 500 gigabytes of data. I did not realize that I actually captured the rotation of the sun in this time either. That was a surprise too. I wish I could have gone longer, especially since that flare launched right near the end and that region was becoming more active. But the mount hit the meridian and doing a flip would have added more work than I wanted. Also, there was an older guy (Night Sky Imaging) on YouTube live streaming this exact quadrant of the sun the same time as me. I had no idea. And he was also making a time lapse of this too.
I set up Firecapture using non-16bit bit and high speed mode to take 1000 frames (which took only about 6 seconds) and then wait 20 seconds to start another capture. I used about a medium gain and around a 6ms exposure. Histogram was about 80% from the right and frames were flat calibrated.
Equipment...
Daystar Quark Chromosphere - https://agenaastro.com/daystar-chromo...
UV/IR Cut Filter SVbony - https://amzn.to/38eD4KL
Altair Astro 60EDF Scope - https://landseaskyco.com/products/alt...
2x 2" Tube Extenders - https://amzn.to/3PepO9m
ZWO ASI 174mm - https://amzn.to/3FzHNCS
ZWO EAF - https://agenaastro.com/zwo-eaf-electr...
ZWO ASIAIR PRO (for mount and focus control only) - https://agenaastro.com/zwo-asiair-plu... (plus model)
iOptron CEM26 Mount -https://agenaastro.com/ioptron-cem26-...
ZWO Tilt Plate - https://agenaastro.com/zwo-t2-tilter-...
Power Bank -
(powers all equipment via USB-C and 12v trigger/emulator)
I use a RAVpower 30,000mah 90w PD, but this one is similar - https://amzn.to/3snvN1S
12v emulator - https://amzn.to/3l1jdRM
Software... (laptop used for capture, desktop used for processing)
Genika (for focus assist)
Firecapture (acquisition)
BlueStacks (android emulator to run ASIAIR app on PC)
AutoStakkert (image stacking *best 10% of 1000 frames)
ImPPG (for image adjustment/sharpening and frame alignment)
Lightroom (further image adjustment)
PIPP (for sequencing images into a video file)
Adobe Premier Pro - (editing and further adjustments)
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