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[Terry B]

Dear All
I had a go at this little dim object in Vela on 29/1/08
It is moving slowly but discernibly between the images. It is a stack of 4x 5min exposures. I have had to stack on the stars as it is too close to a star to stack on the comet head without the star interfering. It is only a lum file taken with my genesis KAF0401E CCD through my VC200L but it does show the coma.
Field is 9 x 14 arcmin.

[iceman]

Nively done, Terry! She sure looks faint.

[theodog]

Nice image Terry.:)
Have you looked at putting together a gif movie of the frames to show the movement?

[Terry B]

How do you do this? What program is needed?
I would like to give it a go.

[Outbackmanyep]

Terry, i think one IIS member used photoshop!

Nice work though, i have been looking for it visually and havent been able to nab it yet!

[edwardsdj]

Nice image of a faint target Terry :)

It is possible to make an animated GIF with free software using GIMP. Not saying it is easy (though it's not hard either) but at least the software is free.

[MrB]

I think ImageReady which comes with Photoshop does animated gif's, but never tried making one.
I know that it has a special window showing all the individual frames if I open an anigif with it tho.

[Matty P]

Nicly done Terry on a very dim object. :thumbsup:

To create an animated GIF. You will need a program like FireWorks or Flash to create a sequence of them. You just load each image into a layer and give the layer an interval to play before it moves onto the next layer. Then simply export the image as a gif file.

Try Google for specific programs for creating an animation. Although I haven't made one yet, give it a try and see how it goes. :)

Hope this helps

[theodog]

I use Jasc Animation Shop. I don't know when I got the software. Maybe of one of those Mag disks?
Hint, align frames before you import them into gif otherwise it is too jumpy to watch.:sadeyes:
I look forward to seeing what you come up with Terry.

If you wish, post the 4 images & I'll put it together for you.:D

[Terry B]

I have succeeded using a program I already had (but didn't realise I had) called Animation Shop. It came with paintshop pro 5.
So here it is.:D

[theodog]

Well done Terry.:)
Look forward to seeing vid's of faint asteroids and comets.;)