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[peterm]

Howdy,

 

Have the granddaughters staying with us so this was all very rushed, but had to do something as the Sun was shining!  Managed to grab some data between UT 2021/01/12 21.31 & 2021/01/12 22.45.  Nothing overly exciting on the disc but there are a few nice proms.  The animation was over 30minutes at 30second intervals, had some scud cloud go through a few times so had to delete 20% of those images. 

 

Lunt 60mm, single stack, PT, ZWO174mm. SharpCap 3.2, AutoStakkert 3, IMPPG. Animated using GIMP. Disc exposures were 3.75ms & set at 110gain. 

 

Thanks for looking

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[peterm]

Animation

[peterm]

Animation

[james7ca]

Nice surface detail and proms from a 60mm scope.

[rigel123]

Nice images and animations Peter! Like that bit of surge prom out of the first animation.

[chemman]

Those are nice images Peter and the animations turned out quite well. 

 

What did the Grandkids think?

 

Chuck

[MalVeauX]

Great animations Peter!

 

Very best,

[mikerepp]

Great images and animations!   Clouds here, haven't been out in a month!   Thank you so much for sharing!

[peterm]

Nice surface detail and proms from a 60mm scope.

Thanks indeed James. Yes! absolutely amazing in a 60mm for sure!  Geez how I wish I could have bought an 80mm. I have the double stack also and will do some more experimenting soon.

[peterm]

Nice images and animations Peter! Like that bit of surge prom out of the first animation.

Thanks Warren,

Here is a link which I hope will work for the animation through my public Dropbox https://www.dropbox....stProm.gif?dl=0

If you could let me know if this works I would be grateful.

[rigel123]

Thanks Warren,
Here is a link which I hope will work for the animation through my public Dropbox https://www.dropbox....stProm.gif?dl=0
If you could let me know if this works I would be grateful.

Yep, works fine. A lot of action at the top of the image. Would be interested to see this with the disk blacked out and the proms in normal mode rather than inverted.

[peterm]

Those are nice images Peter and the animations turned out quite well. 

 

What did the Grandkids think?

 

Chuck

Thanks Chuck, I am having fun for sure! 11 year old thought it looked pretty cool (I told her it was hot) and the 5 year old loves space and astro.... well like her sister she has been looking through various scopes for a while now. Her comment was "pa why do you have so many telescopes"... agreed but they are smaller ones!

[peterm]

Great animations Peter!

 

Very best,

Thank you very much Marty... well you have had somewhat of a big hand in them!

[peterm]

Great images and animations!   Clouds here, haven't been out in a month!   Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks Mike, I never really took as much notice of cloud in the morning as I do now. Most of December and January have been cloudy in the mornings on the coast, some lovely clear afternoons but Sun is too hot and difficult position for my setup. 

[PhotonJohn]

Well done Peter, cool animations.

[peterm]

Well done Peter, cool animations.

Thanks John, been missing your excellent images, still cloudy?

[chemman]

Thanks Chuck, I am having fun for sure! 11 year old thought it looked pretty cool (I told her it was hot) and the 5 year old loves space and astro.... well like her sister she has been looking through various scopes for a while now. Her comment was "pa why do you have so many telescopes"... agreed but they are smaller ones!

You know I just have a granddaughter she turns 14 in a month or so.  Gave her a real microscope a few years ago. Now she seems like a natural science goddess,  it is great.  Can't wait for her to turn 16.