Jupiter's rotation - multi-mega collage

[Dennis]

Hi

Well, I've just finished processing the avi's from this morning, 4th Feb 2006 from 04:24am to 04:52am. I just punched them through Registax with no other processing so the colour balance is a little off.

Hope you don’t mind the rules infraction! I kept the file size to 54K and the height to 353 pixels, but the width blew out to 3201 so will require some scrolling.

Apologies if this results in the post being removed; I understand, but thought I’d risk it!

Thanks

Dennis

[RB]

Dennis, Dennis..........

You're gonna give me a heart attack......... :scared2:

[asimov]

:eyepop: That's tremendous stuff Dennis! Well done!

[[1ponders]]

Hey that's great Dennis! How about running the images through a gif animator. That would be a real :eyepop: :jawdrop:

[Dennis]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed looking at them - I had a ball acquiring and processing them.

Yawn….off to bed now to grab some zzzzzzd’s. :zzz2:

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

stop it, stop it, my Brain can't take much more, this is absolutely beyond words - what a fantastic sequence. Even the overseas mags would be squabbling to get hold of this.

The moon appearing even has surface detail - check it out :scared2: :eyepop:


I'm torn Dennis mate between inspired and thinking I might as well put the gear on e-bay.

WELL DONE!

[beren]

:) Wow that is brilliant, well done

[asimov]

Yup! the moon has detail....wow..:eyepop:

[davidpretorius]

i was watching ganymede flick in and out of focus down here and wondered whether detail could ever be seen.

sorry anyone else that i have said "brilliant" to as this sequence takes the mantle of top image post for my time at IIS. It has knocked chris venter's orion off top spot!!

congrats dennis!

please make sure you clean that camera so you can use the 4x powermate next time!!!!

it goes without saying, this must be submitted to all australian magazines!!! please, i can't wait to brag to my mates when opening the magazine and dropping your name!!!!

[davidpretorius]

if this gets pulled off the site, then last weekends disputes will pale to insignificance.

i am even thinking that the top of this webpage, we can take out IIS and replace it with yours. I am sure Mike will buy royalty rights to display it!!

Actually please copyright this straightaway - in all seriousness!!!

[asimov]

Yep...Immediate copyright is the go..

[Hitchhiker]

TRemendous sequence of images - I'd like to see an animation, too!

[Astroman]

WOW thats a great set of images, detail on the moon is brilliant, I was going to mention it but see that someone already has.

WOOHOOO!!!!

Sorry excited for you lol.

[davidpretorius]

dennis, permission to create an animation for use wholey and solely on this site.

[iceman]

Definitely need an animation.

Definitely staying on the site, it's only 54k and people can choose not to click on the thumbnail.

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Yes mate - go for it. If I can provide any help in the form of the individual images, just let me know. I used ImagesPlus to auto-crop and auto-align the images used for the strip, then just stepped through the sequence using Windows Picture & Fax viewer in slide show mode and it was cool.

Cheers

Dennis

[jjjnettie]

We've run out of adjectives to describe your images.
Love it Dennis!

[mickoking]

Great Images Dennis, Top work :thumbsup:

[fringe_dweller]

WOW! Well caught! but now I wanna see the earlier big version with moon detail :sad: :sad: :tasdevil:
well thats it - the closer to equator, jet stream free northern regions are 'IT' for planets, no doubt about it now, is there :)

[davidpretorius]

ok denis, here is an animation of your magnificent work!

http://precons.com/iceinspace/gallery/jup_dennis.gif

[asimov]

:eek: Excellent stuff!!!!:jump2:

[janoskiss]

You're the master of the Toucam Dennis! Wow! Just got inside from binoviewing Saturn -- ahh that was good! :eyepop: I jump on iceinspace and I get another :eyepop:. Thanks Dennis. Davo, sorry, your animation does not quite do the images justice. Nice try though. ;) I think the single long pic with the images laid out in front of you one after the other is an absolute jawdropper. I used the little Xmag application (screen magnifier I rarely use) for the second time in 24 hours both times on your Jupiters, Dennis, to take a closer look at the amazing detail.

[Starkler]

Amazing stuff Dennis :thumbsup:

I noticed the captures for 4.47 and 4.49am show a slightly different colouration to the others. Did you use slightly different processing for those two ?

[Dennis]

Hi Geoff

I'm not sure why the colour variation. For some of the captures I had thin wispy cloud passing in front of Jupiter, which I noticed as a slight dimming on the computer display. I have also noticed that occasionally, the avi being captured suddenly shows blue tinges on the notebook display, as if the data stream from the ToUcam to the computer is being somehow affected?

I punched all the avi's through Registax and only used Wavelets so that shouldn't cause any colour variation.

I'll be keen to see Mike & Dave's efforts when I send them copies. Hopefully they can squeeze something more from the avi’s.

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

Hi Dennis, if you had your balance set to auto rather than freeze that cloud might have shifted your colour balance - does with mine. cheers,

[Dennis]

Hi Robert

Ahh, yes, that does make sense. Thanks for clearing up that little mystery.

Cheers

Dennis

[Robby]

Stunning work Dennis!! You mus have had some excellent seeing...!
What are the details of the imaging gear? Scope, camera etc?
Well done! Send it to AS&T.

[Dennis]

Thanks Robby,

Have a look here for the equipment details:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=7443

There are screen captures of the settings used in that thread as well.

Cheers

Dennis

[Robby]

You gotta love that C9.25 ay! You must have it very well collimated.... Do you tweak the collimation often?
Cheers