Well here it is, finally.
A 15-frame animation of the Io shadow transit, Io transitting onto the disc of Jupiter, and Ganymede coming out of Jupiter's shadow.
The thing which excited me most, was that Ganymede actually starts as a crescent! Across about 3 frames you can see ganymede come out from behind the curved shadow of Jupiter!
The seeing fluctuated between 5 (or below) and 7 out of 10, and as such, about 5 of the 15 frames are rubbish, but they had to be included to make the animation complete. Some clouds passed through a few avi's as well, which made colour balance matching very difficult.
Attached are 4 of the better frames.
Taken at 5fps with the ToUcam 840k using 900nc firmware and Optimised Color macro. 120 frames of each channel (R/G/B) were stacked before the usual processing routine in AstraImage and then photoshop.
I just love watching these animations, and seeing how different latitudes rotate faster or slower. It really makes the planet (and image) seem alive.
Download the animation here:
Animated GIF (650k)
It will animate slowly as your computer downloads the whole image, and then it will animate faster.
Comments welcome!
I had captured this same sequence with my mewlon, but not to same quality. I couldn't work out where the hell Ganymede came from, as it wasn't there, then in was, yet was approaching the planet... so Ganymede was so far from the equator it was only masked by the polar end of Jupiter's shadow... now it makes sense.
