Chrissyo
13-09-2008, 10:51 PM
I thought I'd post this animation I produced from earlier this evening up here as I'm rather happy with how it turned out - compated to my previous animation attempts that is.
Jupiter with Io and Io Shadow Transit 13-09-2008 (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/257/6/f/Jupiter_Animation_13_09_2008_by_Chr issyo.gif)
Unfortunately, the seeing wasn't too great so I stuck with the 2X barlow rather than the 5X Powermate. That was probably for the best anyway as Io probably would have shifted out of the field of view by the end.
I took one AVI of Jupiter every 5 minutes, for about 55 minutes. I had planned to go for longer but because Jupiter started in the East, as it passed over its maximum altitude the newt tube was eventually bent so far over 'backwards' that the end of it bumped into the tripod leg thus preventing further tracking. I could have flipped the tube over but I thought that would be too much trouble and I'd loose the 5 minute interval timing if I tried to find Jupiter again using just the finderscope.
So each AVI was taken with my 10" Newtonian reflector on an EQ6 mount with a DMK21AU04.AS and 2X barlow. After processing each image I multiplied their size by a factor of 1.5X for image scale. I used Registax for processing then PCFE to crop/centre the images followed by Animator9 to animate the images.
Jupiter with Io and Io Shadow Transit 13-09-2008 (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/257/6/f/Jupiter_Animation_13_09_2008_by_Chr issyo.gif)
Unfortunately, the seeing wasn't too great so I stuck with the 2X barlow rather than the 5X Powermate. That was probably for the best anyway as Io probably would have shifted out of the field of view by the end.
I took one AVI of Jupiter every 5 minutes, for about 55 minutes. I had planned to go for longer but because Jupiter started in the East, as it passed over its maximum altitude the newt tube was eventually bent so far over 'backwards' that the end of it bumped into the tripod leg thus preventing further tracking. I could have flipped the tube over but I thought that would be too much trouble and I'd loose the 5 minute interval timing if I tried to find Jupiter again using just the finderscope.
So each AVI was taken with my 10" Newtonian reflector on an EQ6 mount with a DMK21AU04.AS and 2X barlow. After processing each image I multiplied their size by a factor of 1.5X for image scale. I used Registax for processing then PCFE to crop/centre the images followed by Animator9 to animate the images.