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Sunspot 488 and Airplane October 31, 2003

The above Sunspot 488 movie is 18 images taken by a Philips PCVC740K ToUcam PRO web camera. The movie is a 120 x 90 animated GIF 170 KB. The below 18 images are the individual frames taken at 1/2500 sec at 10 fps of the airplane flying throught Sunspot 488.

240 x 180 animated GIF 655 KB.

Sunspot 488 Image Information

• Images taken at 1/2500 second, 10fps
  
• Poor seeing
  
• 2003/10/31 1:08 PM PDT
  
• Images taken from driveway
  

Imaging Equipment

• Camera: Philips PCVC740K ToUcam PRO web camera
• Telescope: Orion Atlas 10 reflector (254 mm aperture, f/4.7 focal ratio, 1200 mm focal length)
• Orion solar filter
• Finder: Mounted on top of a Atlas 10 is an Orion ShortTube™ 80 mm aperture rich-field refractor (f/5 focal ratio, 400 mm focal length) which is used as a finder.
• Telescope Mount: Losmandy G-11 mount

Imaging Processing

• JASC Animation Shop 3.10 to convert AVI file to individual TIF files for each frame
• Adobe Photoshop Version 7.01 to unsharp mask, color adjust, resize, crop and convert to JPG
• Adobe ImageReady to create GIF

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