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The best 40 of 900 frames captured this morning.
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I attempted a bit of an animation around AR3644 but could tell the seeing was going from fair to bad real quick. This animation covers 22 minutes before I pulled the plug.
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Nice captures !
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Nice imaging Greg,

The animation close up is awesome.
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Very nice Greg!
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Love that animation!

How many images in 20 minutes? You must have a massive hard drive!

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Great image and the animation is amazing.

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Graeme1858 wrote: Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:19 am Love that animation!

How many images in 20 minutes? You must have a massive hard drive!

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Thanks Graeme,
I was shooting 20 second 16bit SER files with a 10 second pause between clips, but the ROI was very small, only 700x500 pixels, so the individual clips were about 800MB. About 40 images total.
I don't keep the raw data after I process it but I think it was about 50GB total including the data captured for the full disk shot. I literally trash everything except the final image when I'm finished processing it unless there's something I see that might require some extra work, like a potential flare. I run a 2TB external SSD drive for the captures.
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Great stack of the disk Greg, and as others have said, very cool animation!

BTW, thanks for the advice on "less can be better"; I'm finding 10-50 frames instead of 2-300 out of 2000 a big improvement! :D
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Yes Mark, I was quite shocked to discover the same thing.
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very fine animation , thx Greg .
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Congratulations Greg on having your image selected as our TSS APOD!

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Gordon wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:22 pm Congratulations Greg on having your image selected as our TSS APOD!

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Thank you guys so much, that's awesome!
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Beautiful capture and animation Greg!
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Congratulations Greg , well deserved !! I will be looking forward to seeing more !!
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Congrats on the APOD. You deserve it for that image!

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Great image Greg and congratulations on the APOD.

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