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Saturday, 28 May 2011 23:31

SURFACE DETAIL AND SOLAR FLARES

At the moment my surface animations comprise GIF files of up to 20mb but this site will only allow me to load 2mb in its present form so I have just presented some short sequence at my full resolution GIF files on this page. You can check on the magnitue of any flares that you may have seen by going on NOAA site.

Here is an animation from 11 June 2011 between 17-35 and 17-51UT.

11 June 2011

Here is a 9 frame animation from 9 July 2011 between 14-09 and 14-25UT seeing conditions grade 2.

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Here is a coloured version of the C3-class solar flare across AR1195 between 12-33 and 12-42UT on 22 April 2011.

22 April 2011

Here is AR1193  photograpbed on the 19th April 2011 between 15-45 and 16-08 UT [11 frames] animated at 0.15 second gaps

19 April 2011

Here is a small flare associated with AR1165 on the on the 7 March 2011 from 16-11 to 16-25UT

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Here is the same sunspot AR1165 the day after on the 8 March 2010 between 11-50 and 12-12UT with just 14 of my frames animated with each frame running at 0-15 seconds. There is an active limb flare with post flare loops reconnecting above the chromosphere.

8 March 2012

Remember what I said about the value of failures here is a short animation where I forgot to blow the dust from my camera chip and on the Barlow lense - we all can make mistakes! Spot the dust dumplings that appear to be hovering over the sun!

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This is Sunspot AR1066 on the 7 March 2011 between 15-05 and 15-20UT showing some post flare loops reconnecting after a M2-class solar flare event that I had just missed!

7 March 2011

Here is AR1164 on the 7 March 2011 between 15-34UT and 15-58UT as small flare ejects a stream of plasma.

7 March 2011

Here is the same sunspot AR1164 the day earlier on the 6 March 2011 between 16-02 and 16-34UT [11 frames] at one frame every 0-15 seconds. As can be seen there is a significant variation in seeing conditions throughout this sequence when compared to the one above.

6 March 2011

Here is sunspot AR1128 on 2 June 2011 between 16-51 and 17-03UT [12 frames] running at one frame every 0.15 seconds.

2 June 2011

This is an animation on the 10 April 2011 between 12-12 and 12-35UT 12 frames.

10 April 2011

This is AR on 17 October 2011 between 09-03 and 09-17UT showing a small solar flare using a double-stacked 90mm Solarmax in reasonable grade 2 seeing conditions. Compare it to the triple-stacked image in the same seeing conditions above.

17 October 2010

Here is a small set of flairs that broke between 09-24 and 10-02 UT on the 30 September 2011, here I am using a double-stacked 90mm Solarmax telescope.

30 September 2012

This is another of my very early animation attempts this is AR1089 on the 27 March 2010 between 14-32 and 14-43UT this loop in makes the Sun look like it has a heart beat!

23 July 2010

Photographed on the 11 March 2010 between 12-23 and 12-48UT here a flare breaks across AR1054 used single-stacked 90mm Solarmax - seeing grade 3.

11 March 2010

This was another of my very first animation attempts and at the time I was using a single-stacked 90mm SolarMax telescope. Here a small flare breaks at the side of an active region between 08-47 and 08-53UT on the 27 March 2010.

27 March 2010

This animation was one of my very first attempts at making an animation from a set of stills that I had made of an active region. At that stage I was focussed on trying to get my techniques right to produce a decent still image. When I learned how to animate my stills, I then trawled through all my old data [I save everything including all my raw videos] to create further animations and to help refine my techniques. Here you see a sequence of AR1083 on the 20 June 2010 between 11-42UT and 11-56UT. At this stage I was not correctly orientating my images to the correct solar coordinates.

12 June 2010

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