One of my solar animations that I uploaded to Spaceweather.com was featured in a Newsweek article which you can read by clicking the image below.
I am really pleased that Spaceweather.com have featured my animations several times. They always add interesting scientific facts about each animation. These are shown below and you can click on the images to watch the animations.
Click here to see smoother colored versions on Imgur.
I was really honoured to be featured on the front page of spaceweather .com recently. Click here to see the animation.
Above is a compilation of the solar prominence animations I captured in 2023 from Inverness, Scotland. Full details of equipment and software used are in the end credits.
This was a short capture of a prominence that was very animated considering it only lasted 25 minutes.
Captured with my 90mm PST mod, 2.5x barlow and DMK21 camera.
More of my animations are here.
Lucky capture with my Coronado PST, Powermate 2.5x and DMK21 combo.
Here is a preview of my latest app DVC which is used to clean up astro videos.
I capture hundreds of videos using DSSR over several hours to create my solar animations. These are then batch processed by Registax or Avistack. However, any dark frames caused by clouds can cause glitches or even shutdowns for the stackers. DVC works by first analysing the brightness of every frame in every video. Any videos with frames that are too dark are moved into a folder called “2Bcleaned”.
DVC then processes the videos requiring cleaning and creates a copy video with the darker frames removed. These can then be included with the ‘clean’ videos and batch processed by stacking software with no problems.
This animation shows 8 hours of solar activity caught with my Coronado PST on June 23rd, 2022. Software used was DFM, DSSR, Avistack, Gimp, Advanced Renamer and DVS. It repeats in reverse so you can see the Sun’s rotation.
I also managed to catch a jet passing the Sun which is below at half speed.
Here are a selection of my latest captures taken with my £90 Canon SX530HS. Click on an image for full size original.
I shot this with my SV105 camera on February 10, 2022. Clear Highland air gave very steady seeing so I caught a lot of detail.