Raymond TSE 寫:Since the prominences/filaments may change quite slowly, would it be necessary to capture short video clips over extended period
say 4-6 hours during morning/afternoon ? in order to see some moderate changes of the prominence/filament movements ?
Raymond Tse
For high magnification shots of prominence (around 1500mm or above), my experience showed that significant changes can be seen in just 10 min - 20 min. The time between videos is about 1-2 minutes.
For low magnification shots (which I haven't tried), of course you need longer time to see obvious changes. But I would expect a time frame of much much shorter than 4-6 hours unless you want to record really long period of changes.
For active regions/sunspot groups/filaments on the solar disk, I had not done any serious animation yet. So I don't know what is the usual time frame.
As changes can happen quite quickly, it is more ideal to keep each video short. However, other factors may come into play which makes this not feasible. e.g. If the seeing is very poor (which is often what I get during lunch time), a short video can result in only very few good images. The stacked image will therefore be noisy. In such case, I personally prefer a less noisy final image by recording longer period and stacking more frames. - It is always a matter of compromise.