Clear skies enabled me to image the Sun on five successive days, so I have produced animations to illustrate the rotation of the Sun and the changes that occur in sunspots from day to day. With luck the animations will be synchronised, but each pauses at the first and last frame. I regret that the quality differs so much from frame to frame, but the sky was not perfectly clear on any of these days (and my camera is not as clean as it might be either!).
The whole Sun. The animation demonstrates the rotation of the Sun.
Dates: 6th to 11th September 2006
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: 270 mm SLR
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma
Processing: Registax and Animagic.
This is sunspot 10908.
Dates: 6th to 11th September 2006
Camera: Toucam 740K
Telescope: ETX 125
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma,
Processing: Registax and Animagic.
These is sunspots 10907 (lower) and 10909 (upper).
Dates: 6th to 11th September 2006
Camera: Toucam 740K
Telescope: ETX 125
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma,
Processing: Registax and Animagic.
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