Partial eclipse animated GIF

[asimov]

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt77/Asimov_2009/lunapic_127757733661594_20.gif

15 frames 15 mins. apart. ED80 & 400D.

[Omaroo]

Nice going John :)

[spearo]

Well done
frank

[Mick]

That's great well done.:)

[sheeny]

Well done, John.

I didn't get to see it all, but I have now.

Al.

[Kevnool]

Thats top work there John.
Twas a great night.
Cheers Kev.

[Quark]

Excellent work John, not sure if I have seen this approach taken previously, very innovative and most effective.

Regards
Trevor

[StephenM]

Great animation John!

Cheers,
Stephen

[h0ughy]

great work

[asimov]

Thank you guys. In hindsight, I should have perhaps shot a frame every 5 mins to smooth it out. I made a movie of it as well (AVI) & converted to MP4 but it's rather fast & I don't know how to slow it down.

http://s599.photobucket.com/albums/tt77/Asimov_2009/?action=view&current=eclipseshotcopy.mp4

[Jen]

;) Thats cool John how do you do that :screwy:
How do you turn photos into that :question: is it a special program you need to do that, or do you have to take the pics in raw or something :rolleyes:
thats cool :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Very cool anim. :thumbsup:

[asimov]

Hi Jen.

Well I'm sure there's plenty of software out there for projects like this & in fact, programs that we astro enthusiasts use, like Bink & Smacker, VirtualDub etc. are quite capable of doing it but I prefer to use this:

http://www.blibs.com/editor/

It's free, plus you don't have to download & install yet ANOTHER program to your computer!:D

[Jen]

Hey thanks i will check that out.
So what were your pics taken as JPEG or dosnt it matter :question:

[asimov]

Yes JPEG. After cropping & resizing each frame, my editing software saves them as TIF's & uploaded the TIF's straight to the linked page. Once it's done it's thing it will save it as a gif.

[Jen]

:thumbsup: Thanks John i might try have a go at this. Even though i have no idea what im doing haha :P

[asimov]

Well, if you need any help, give us a yell:thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

An awesome looking presentation John.

[asimov]

Thanks JJJ. With this being basically my first serious attempt at an animation, you can bet your bottom dollar I'm going to have to attempt a reprocess - I want BIGGER & better!:lol::D

[Octane]

John,

That's wonderful -- thanks for that. I didn't bother going outside because I could see what looked like cloud from my little window next to my desk here. Now I have seen it. : P

H

[asimov]

Thanks Humayun:) Sorry you missed it mate, due to cloud:confused2: I was half expecting the same problem considering where I am. Miracles do happen sometimes:lol:

[asimov]

Well, here's the reprocess. It's bigger but not necessarily better:lol:

Here's the process used. It might help others to develope GIF's of their own..

Open up each original image in photo editing program. Cropped mine to 592X592 resized to 400X400. A mask was created just inside the moon limb & unsharp masked. Saved as copies as TIF.

After that, opened each copy back up & created a new canvas 500X500. copied each image onto the new canvas. And that's pretty well it:hi:

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt77/Asimov_2009/test/lunapic_127763400912530_20latest.gi f

[michaellxv]

That's excellent John, very well done.

[M54]

Awesome! And I didn't have to freeze my extremities off to see it this time.:lol:

[iceman]

Nicely done John. Great animation.

[asimov]

Thanks Molly, Michael & Mike:thumbsup: