Tuesday 14 May 2013

Post Flare Loops - The Movie... 13th May

I couldn't believe my eyes today to have seen a X2.8 class flare erupting away on then eastern limb of the sun, it had just happened and the post flare loops were plain to see in the eyepiece. Knowing these are very dynamic plasma loops I decided to set up the 70mm PST mod at f14 with the DMK31 and record a timelapse of it.  This represents just over 20 minutes in the life of our star and is an animation made up of 31 frames, each made up from simultaneous 1000 frame avis, from which the best 100 were stacked in Autostakkert2.