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iceman
27-03-2006, 08:14 AM
Here's my first effort from the morning of the 26th March.

I got up at around 2:00am first, but the seeing wasn't very good and clouds came over - so I only got 1 avi. Went back to bed. Got up again at 4:00am, no clouds and much better seeing.

Took 15 avi's in total, with the Io shadow transit, the beginning of an Io transit, and Ganymede coming out of the shadow of Jupiter. The seeing fluctuated a fair bit, but hopefully the quality is good enough across the range to do another animation.

Here's the first of the 15. I had to create a composite to get the moon in, as ppmcentre cropped it out so I did a run of processing on the planet, and then used the avi with registax aligned on the moon to create the second image.

I then copied the moon image as a new layer on the planet image in photoshop, and cut out the planet area of the moon layer to combine them.

I've got a long week of processing ahead, i'll try and get it done before SPSP!

Comments welcome.

Robby
27-03-2006, 09:08 AM
Dedication mate.
How you constantly drag yourself out of the sack and these ungodly hours is beyond me! True dedication. It obviously pays off. You have had some wonderful images lately. Well done.
Cheers

davidpretorius
27-03-2006, 10:11 AM
lovely white circles there mike, the seeing may not have been the greatest, but there is great detail regardless.

Robert_T
27-03-2006, 12:01 PM
ANother lovely Joop Mike! The quality you're consistently putting out is great. This one has a nice 3-d feel with the moon and shadow.

My effort from the same time suffered a little more from seeing.

cheers,

ving
27-03-2006, 12:45 PM
more great stuff mike :D

asimov
27-03-2006, 12:46 PM
Thats a great image Mike, yes it has the 3D look. Lovely image & congrats :thumbsup:

Rodstar
27-03-2006, 08:49 PM
Lovely shot, mate. When is it going to start rotating?!:whistle:

iceman
28-03-2006, 06:43 AM
Thanks guys, still busy processing through the others.. Hopefully have an animation by the end of the week if i'm lucky.

Rodstar
28-03-2006, 07:31 AM
We will all look forward to that, Mike.

I'm not sure what the next challenge for you is after animations of planets....animations of supernovae? Now THAT would get you back on APOD.:P