30th March Jupiter + another animation

[iceman]

Hi all.

Here's the final washup from the 30th March Jupiter series I took before SPSP.

The seeing was only slightly better than average, so they're not the smoothest images but they show quite a bit of detail still, with the red circle inside Red Jr and lots of other small storms and spots in the NEB.

The attachment shows 2 images out of 11 for the session, and the link below is an animation of the 11 frames, covering about 1 hour elapsed time.

Jupiter Rotation Animation (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/downloads/20060330-jupiter_anim.gif) (460k animated gif)

A 70% scaled down version is here:

Jupiter Rotation Animation (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/downloads/20060330-jupiter_anim_sml.gif) (230k animated gif)

Comments welcome.

[davidpretorius]

These are great for the seeing conditions. I tried a few nights back and it was shocking.

INtersted in the white band encroaching into Jnr though. piccie on the right

[RB]

Another fine image Mike, excellent for the conditions.
Also the animation is awesome, the image scale is just superb.

Well done once again.

[beren]

:thumbsup: top notch work congrats

[asimov]

Superb stuff Mike.:thumbsup:

[Robert_T]

Mike, these are really, really good. Perfect colour to my eyes and incredible detail. If I get someting like this, this opposition I'll be stoked:thumbsup:

cheers,

[iceman]

Many thanks guys! I'm very pleased with the Jupiter's i've been churning out. Been lucky with the seeing and jetstream, and have settled on a nice set of capture parameters and processing methods, so they all turn out similar in look and feel.

And making these animations is fun! I even bought a registered copy of Jasc Software Animation Shop 3, so my trial version doesn't run out. It's a great, easy program for making these animated gifs.

[Dennis]

Great images Mike - keep on pumping them out.

Thank you also for posting such well documented details of the post capture processes and techniques you use. Yours and Dave’s “how to” contributions to Jupiter capture and processing have really helped me refine my own techniques.

Birds and RobertT's results continue to inspire me and keep my spirits up although I cannot figure where RobT gets these occasional clear spells from, as we both live in Brisbane and all I see are clouds, clouds and clouds everywhere...And he uses a x4 Powermate...go figure, he must be a planetary magician as well as prolific poster.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

yup, the clouds open up for him for all the hard work he did on mars!

[Robert_T]

Unfortunately I raised my Takahashi staff a couple a times in the last week or so, but dem damn clouds refused to part for me - the audacity:P

[ving]

great stuff mike :D
how long would it take to get a full rotation in avi form?

[Lester]

Great animation Mike. Plenty of detail, even within the red spot.