On July 9, 2023, I took my first solar time lapse of a whole full disc of the sun, showing plenty of interesting features in motion resembling eruptive prominences and minor solar flares visible within the sun’s chromosphere while our star rotated over the course of three hours.
The time-lapse sequence was captured from Dark Sky Alqueva territory in Portugal with a Player One Saturn-M SQR camera and a Lunt telescope LS100, generating 3 terabytes of information.
Within the video above, it is feasible to observe a time lapse sequence that comprises 213 processed still shots, every one the results of a stack of the very best 200 frames from each raw video. The outcome is a 5K high resolution time lapse movie comprising around 3 hours and 20 minutes of images.
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Below is a still shot presented in monochrome (black and white), intended to assist steer your attention to essentially the most interesting parts of the image.
Technical Details: Lunt Solar System LS100| EQ-6 Pro mount | Player One Saturn-M SQR | Stack of 200 frames for every single image, captured in average seeing conditions from Dark Sky® Alqueva territory, Portugal.
Vital Note: Never have a look at or point a telescope or some other optical equipment directly on the sun without proper specialized safety filters! It might cause vision damage and potentially blind you without end.
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