Solar Animation from 5-26-24

This is the final run from my April 26 imaging session with the ZWO ASI174. I decided to do an animation/time-lapse to finish off for the day. I collected several 500 frame bursts every 30s for 27 minutes to make this time lapse. I really like these solar animations as they show how dynamic the sun really is. It is certainly not the best time lapse as it is overly above the chromosphere and there are still some blurry frames (although I did remove several). I could go on with critiquing it but I learned quite a bit by doing it. For one thing I did a lot of Batch Processing work using many different programs. The process I used was from the Youtube channels of Chuck's Astro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXijbjkclMc&t=647s) and AZAstroguy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L4yHtkpVY4&t=11s).

Basically it was Sharpcap (capturing), AutoStakkert (stacking), PixInsight (crop), IMPPG (sharpen, align), Photoshop (color, time/lapse), Topaz DeNoise (sharpen), and I attempted to use NAFE. I don't know if I could have improved it as so much depends on the seeing conditions and by the time I did this, the conditions were deteriorating.

In addition to the flares on the end, the surface shows quite a bit of neat activity as well.

Higher Quality:

https://www.astrobin.com/tcdbgp/?nc=collection&nce=712

https://www.instagram.com/astroquest1/
http://astroquest1.blogspot.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/kurtzepp/collections/
http://youtube.com/AstroQuest1

Solar Animation from 5-26-24
Date: 5-26-24
Camera: ZWO ASI174MM-Pro
Telescope: Orion ED80
Barlow: DayStar Quark 4.2x
Focal Length: 600mm (2520mm w/Quark)
F/7.5 (F/31.5 w Quark)
Focal Reducer: none
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ
Filter Adaptor: None
Filter: Baader UV-IR, Daystar Quark
Focuser: None
Autoguiding: None
Exposure: 27 min (100 of 500 every 30s)
Gain: 100
Offset 0
FPS: 66
Temp: 15 C
Processing: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, PixInsight, IMPPG, Photoshop