solar prominence, the movie: mother of a prom revisited

sent out an image last year of a solar prominence i'd captured :
mother of a prom

here's an animation from the same day:

same time scale as prior animation post), but higher resolution, focusing on prominence at edge.

Long winded processing notes:

i continued to capture video of the prominence for 160 minutes at 2 frames per second

unfortunately, the resulting avi file was so big, my processing software crashed on it repeatedly

(virtual dub and registax) so i abandoned the project

improvements in the processing software (and actually reading the manual) as well as newer editing software (pipp) allowed me to chop it up into more managable bits and process them as a batch

wound up with 25x400 second videos

edited with pipp and registax

then taken to photoshop for curves to smooth the background, spot healing to stomp out a spot left by a dust mote (sharp eyed viewer might catch artifact at the left edge towards the end) and final animation. 

5/12/13, los alamitos, CA 

DMK 51, 2.5x Powermate, Lunt 60 PT B1200, ASA DDM60