Join NASA Solar System Ambassador and Telescope Live Tutor Mark Johnston as he will guide you through a unique process in astrophotography, Solar Animations. Solar animations are one of the most creative and captivating astrophotography media that you can create showing the movement and often explosive nature of our sun. This tutorial will build on the post-processing tutorials that Mark has already presented and using these skills Mark will show you the required batching and alignment procedures that you need in order to create stunning animations of the sun.

This tutorial will cover the processing in ImPPG, sharpening in Topaz Labs, refinement in Affinity Photo and finally the animation creation using PIPP and a video editor.

We recommend watching Mark's previous tutorials as they will cover all the processing skills that you need for creating the animation panes.