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Solar corona and SOHO 5008 comet


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ImageTSE_2024_Sims_300mm.png
Date08. 04. 2024
Time2nd contact 18:48:17 UT, 3rd contact 18:53:03 UT (duration 4 min 17 s)
PlaceSims, Arkansas, USA
CoordinateN 34° 38.1787', W 93° 41.4097',   Alt. 230 m
ConditionsClear sky, solar altitude at mid-eclipse 61.9° above horizon
OpticsNikkor 300 f2.8
CameraNikon D810
Exposure1/250 s - 1 s
ProcessingComposition of 487 eclipse images. Images were calibrated by means of dark frames and flat-fields, aligned by means of phase correlation, composed by means of LDIC 6.0 software. The resulting image was processed using Corona 5.0 software in order to visualize coronal structures. The final processing was done using ACC 6.1 software.
Image processing by Miloslav Druckmüller
SoftwareAstro D3F 2.0, PhaseCorr 8.0, LDIC 6.0, Corona 5.0, Sofo ACC 6.1
OrientationImage must be rotated 19.6° counter-clockwise to achieve standard orientation i.e. solar North up.
Copyright© 2024 Petr Štarha, Jana Hoderová, Shadia Habbal, Miloslav Druckmüller
 


Miloslav Druckmüller
Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
druckmuller@fme.vutbr.cz
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