Animation of Jupiter passing Neptune

[StephenM]

Hi all,

We've had mostly clear skies at 5am for the last 4 days, so I was able to put together a little animation of Jupiter and Neptune as a follow-up to the image I posted the other day.

Each frame is a 1.5 sec exposure with the K100D and 30-300 telephoto at f/5.6 and 800iso, taken 24 hrs apart. The final result is a 100% crop of the area with the 2 planets. There was some thin cloud when I took the second frame, hence the hazy appearance.

Anyway, here it is. Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Liz]

Another beauty Stephen .. well done!!

[Inmykombi]

Excellent work there.
I was amazed at the travel of Jupiter within a 24hr period.

Well done.

Geoffro.

[iceman]

Excellent work Stephen!

[HolyWars]

Now thats awesome!

[Kevnool]

Great work Stephen.
Great animation.
Cheers Kev.

[Quark]

Well done again Stephen,

Yet another fine example of astrophotography without a telescope. This is really great stuff, the sort of thing students at school could get involved with.

Top stuff
Regards
Trevor

[StephenM]

Thanks very much everyone! This was another fun little project, and I'm quite happy with the result. You're right Trevor, this sort of thing would be a good astronomy project for schools.

I'm planning to try and capture one of the up-coming eclipses of one Jovian moon by another, using the same approach.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Ric]

That's a beauty Stephen.

fine work indeed.

Cheers

[scopemankit]

That's a great movie!

[jjjnettie]

Stephen, you've done it again. Great stuff.

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Ric, Chris and Jeanette!

Cheers,
Stephen