Lunt 80mm
iOptron ZEQ25 mount
ZWO ASI1600mm camera
SharpCap Pro software for capture
Hutech Hinode Solar Guider
ASUS laptop
https://youtu.be/YOM2sxPFqm0
Using a script running in SharpCap Pro I captured a single 150 frame .ser video file every 30 seconds.
Then, using AutoStakkert 3! software I stacked each of those individual video clips to create a single .tif file. Fortunately, there's an automated process so you just have to do the first one and then let the script run on all the clips.
So now I end up with a folder full of .tif files that I run through ImPPG to really bring out the detail in each image and auto align the frames. Again, there's an automated process so you only have to do the first image. Even though the mount was guiding with the solar guider there is always a very tiny amount of drift caused by imperfect polar alignment and just a slight breeze occasionally moving the mount. Not sure if the traffic driving by caused any drift as well. So the auto-align frames feature in ImPPG was a life-saver. They are then exported as monochrome .tif files to a different folder.
Now on to PhotoShop to add a bit of colorization and final tweaking of the sharpness and now I've got a folder with a bunch of "final" images. Again, automated using Photoshop Actions.
Then, again using Photoshop and the "stack files as layers" and "animate frames" feature I created the video clips. I say clips because I had to break them up into six different clips because my computer could not handle a single file with 235 layers. That's how many frames I ended up with. I managed to create 6 roughly equal video clips dividing up the 235 frames.
Once I had the final 6 clips of the transit I went into PremierePro to piece them together and add the other timelapse of the setup which was all done automatically using a Removu K1 gimbal camera. A little bit of text graphics and music and voila!