Jupiter with Ganymede occulting and eclipsing Europa (animation)

[cyberblitz]

This is an animation of Jupiter during a very rare triple moon transit event around 15th Aug 17:15 UTC. Jupiters moon, Ganymede, is first seen occulting Europa followed by the moon eclipsing Europa. Eventually, you see both Ganymede and Europa shadows join together and separate again. Callisto is seen moving toward the right edge of the screen. Eventually, you see Io popping out from behind Jupiter's left. Unfortunately, the weather was not on my side so seeing was terrible, leaving me little detailed data to work with, hence why it's blurry. However, Reddit has also impacted the quality and made it worse.

First, I used Autostakkart3! to stack the video captures, then created a GIF using 45 images, which were first sharpened in Registax, then RGB combined in Photoshop where I applied a few tweaks. I eventually used PIPP to combine the images into a GIF.

Equipment is used:

10" Skywatcher Newtonian
ZWO 174MM Camera and RGB Filters with a 5 x Powermate
Each color channel capture was 30 secs long and i had taken around 40 sets over 2-3 hours

I really struggled to get the GIF to 200kb to upload to this website, so here it is on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/p8iudl/jupiter_with_ganymede_occulting_and _eclipsing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3


Or here on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/cyberblitz_/status/1428922054632382464?s=20

[rustigsmed]

nice work with the gif - that must've take forever with a mono camera!

[cyberblitz]

It took me about 5 hours and i now have Jupiter etched into my eyeballs :lol:

[multiweb]

+1 Really sharp. You can make out all of the sequence. I had to imagine mine. :lol: Very cool. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Really nice work.

Cheers

Dennis