saturn animation

[bird]

Hi all,

Here's a 4-frame animation of Saturn from the 19th, the time delay between frames is about 6 minutes. The animation helps to show cloud detail, especially in the bright equatorial region just above the rings.

It also helps to see Rhea, which is otherwise hard to spot in transit.

The image size comes in just under the 200kb limit, but the conversion to gif degrades the images quite a bit.

cheers, Bird

[Quark]

Another excellent presentation Bird,

As you say the conversion to gif has degraded the images which really is a shame. There certainly appears to be some cloud movement but it is hard to differentiate from the artifacts of the gif.

I assume that Rhea is the bright spot moving, down in the STrZ. The animation really helps in identifying it.

Regards
Trevor

[iceman]

Excellent work Anthony, a nice animation. Very consistent quality between the frames.

[Matt Wastell]

Thanks for the effort - really nice to see a moving Saturn!

[Clayton]

Lovely animation. Great detail even in GIF form

[DavidU]

Nice ! I bet it's great in uncompressed form.

[jjjnettie]

It sure is nice to have Saturn making a come back.
Terrific animation Anthony.

[Garyh]

That`s fantastic Anthony! Wonderful detail showing!

[bird]

Here's a link to a better online animation that keeps the original image quality:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/20100219-anim/

This works in firefox, not sure about other browsers :-)

cheers, Bird

[Quark]

Brilliant work Bird,

This is much better than the gif and really does do justice to the quality of the individual frames in the animation.

Regards
Trevor