JUPITER SEQUENCE - May 4th OK Seeing

[Robert_T]

Hi All, well I processed up all the avis from this morning.

I've shown a range over nearly an hour in the image below. As I feared it looks like the first was as good as it got with OTA seeing deteriorating throughout the session I think because of a sharp dip in temp just before the dawn... not sure how to deal with that as it would have been a bit fussy to pull out the camera and put in the cat cooler for 10min or so; probably would have lost a half hour in the process.

Anyway, you can see the GRS scooting off stage right in these followed by it's smaller sibling.

enjoy.

Rob

[iceman]

Excellent work, Rob. The first one is definitely he best. An animated gif of the sequence would look nice! Did you get Io?

Very rid reds, nice colouration.

[bird]

Nice work Rob - fine images!

Bird

[Robert_T]

Thanks Mike. Is there a shareware or MS something I can use to do an animated sequence. Have never got round to it before but would like to try.

And yes I did get IO, but I always have had a problem with colour and alignment with the moons using the DMK. I never seem to be able to get a combined colour view. Always looks like a false colour blob. Any suggestions? Maybe if I just try and process on IO and leave jupiter out?

[iceman]

Yes - process them both independantly and recombine them in post-processing.

Io moves so fast that it will almost always end up with colour fringing if processed while aligning on Jupiter and not Io.

For animations, I bought Jasc Software Animation Shop 3. It's brilliant!

[[1ponders]]

Very nice Rob. Great to see you back in the saddle again.

[John K]

Excellent stuff Robert.

Have you considered submiting your images to ALPO and the guys that take measurements of all the spots, features and disturbances of Jove?

[Quark]

Well done Robert for making the early morning effort.

Mike, just wondering where you sourced Jasc Animation Shop 3
I could sure use something like that. I have been using the online picasion which allows you to upload 3 or 4 images to creat a GIF that you can then save.


Does the Jasc Animation shop have a feature that allows you to align the individual images of the animation?

Regards
Trevor

[iceman]

Hi Trevor.

Here's a couple of links I found:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/download/animationshop
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,7652-order,1-page,1-c,tools/description.html

It does let you move each frame to register them against each other properly.

I use photoshop for that first - I copy each image as a new layer onto a new image. I then blink on and off each layer and use the move tool to align each layer with respect to the one beneath it.

I then use the "export layers to files" function in photoshop to save the layers as TIFF files. I then open the TIF's in Animation Shop to produce the animation.

Hope that helps.

[Robert_T]

thanks for the tips Mike:)



Hi John, Thought about it Yes, done anything about it, no. I guess these days I'm such an infrequent imager its hardly worth it, and I find myself leaning more toward the aesthetics of the images more than their science content... you?

[davidpretorius]

hes back hes back hes back......... :D

well done rob,

did you do anything silly with the scope first time up after so long away?? ie leave the cover on, or look down the wrong end :rofl:

[bird]

Rob, grab a copy of the GIMP, it's free :-) google will tell you how to do animated gifs.

cheers, Bird

[edwardsdj]

Very nice Jupiter sequence Rob :)

I agree with Bird, the GIMP is the way to go for free animated GIFs.

[Robert_T]

close, I put the extension tube (mirror flip) before the barlow:D

[[1ponders]]

Slightly off topic.
Mike have you tried using the blending option "Difference" instead. You might find it much quicker.

[iceman]

Potentially, but the layers are different. Depending on the seeing and transparency with each image taken, Jupiter can be quite a different shape altogether, let alone the detail on the disc which has of course rotated between frames.

[Robert_T]

I tried a tip from Bird and got the best avi and stacked up amuch larger number of frames per colour channel... 900 for each which is baout half what I took. Also tried resampling via Mitchell in registax to 150%.

Maybe a bit more detail brought out now in Red Spot Jnr

[iceman]

That's a beauty, Rob! What a way to get back into it.