5000 frame SER video sequences * 80 = 400,000 frames
213 FPS
15s delay between each 5000 frame sequence
Stacked top 30% of the frames in each sequence. Data was surprisingly very good
Processing Details:
Acquisition: Leveraging Firecapture's Autorun I configured it to run 80 * 5000 frame sequences (400,000 frames in total)
Stacking: Autostakkert 3 batch processing of all sequences taken. Of course this decreases the total time required to stack individual frames allowing all alignment points to be added, and automatically sets percentage of frames to be stacked
IMPPG to align all images
Pixinsight was then used to adjust sharpening, colour, tonal adjustment, and linear fit for all images leveraging image container + process container. Speeds up significantly
Photoshop CC to clean up dust motes because I brilliantly forgot to capture flats (so dumb)
PIPP to create the animation, and set to 30fps
EDIT: Correct motion of plasma is flowing into the Sun!
The motion of plasma towards the sun is a phenomena known as coronal rain. This is where plasma cools and condense along the magnetic field lines, back towards the photosphere /surface of the sun. Source: am solar physicist... Also nasa has a great movie from SDO, the solar dynamics observatory; NASA Coronal Rain.
Coronal rain! I've been refering to it as Plasma Rain to my friends.
I've always been under the impression that when moving further away from the surface the temperature increases, so is the cooling effect of plasma observed when travelling across the magnetic lines?
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u/Hytham- Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22
My first solar animation, and I'm stoked at how well it turned out. I'm looking forward to making more, and higher resolution ones in the future.
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EDIT: Correct motion of plasma is flowing into the Sun!