Prom animation

Hi all,

Here is an animation of the big prom shot on Saturday. It is a series of 30 frames shot over a 45 minute period. The animation itself looks decent. The images are not great because AFTER I finished the frames I discovered my SM60 was detuned. (Note to self...check the tuning knob BEFORE imaging.) I hope to try this again tomorrow. I want to do an animation of the Mercury transit next month.

http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~pmaxson/misc/Prom100806c.gif

Paul

Hi Paul,

Detuned or not that looks like a very good animation, looks a lot like Alan's goblin Prom

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Paul -

Wow - that must have taken a lot of work! The images are processed very well and the animation shows that this large prom was quite a stable formation, changing little over the period of your recording. Yours is a more accurate way to show a timeline of change than my movie, which uses only three images and shows more the range of motion over time than the full narrative.

One small suggestion - if you apply a mild gaussian blur to the occulting image over the bright sun it will ease that sharp edge.

best -
Alan