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Bird swooping across Ha 0.5nm Sun 2024/07/37, Ed Astle

Bird swooping across Ha 0.5nm Sun 2024/07/37

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Bird swooping across Ha 0.5nm Sun 2024/07/37, Ed Astle

Bird swooping across Ha 0.5nm Sun 2024/07/37

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Caught this while testing my Edmund Optics 0.5nm Ha filter after a Baader Herschel.
I normally get photo bombed by planes being on the Gatwick airport flight path.
This made a nice change!

1. SER Player to export the ser frames as individual png
2. IMPPG to batch process those png (sharpen + small contrast boost)
3. GIMP to load in those processed png - you need to order the layers backwards, else gif will be backwards (ie frames 50...1)
4. GIMP to horizontally flip the image (which flips all the layers) to match what was on the sun
5. GIMP to "export as gif" - 10ms delay between frames (my ser was 52fps), disposal = "one frame per layer (replace)"

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