Io and Jups shadow

[davidpretorius]

Had basically been wanting to try and catch io going into the shadow of jupiter.

Last 90 sec run of the night, it must have been getting close and suddenly the alt drive plays up, leave the avi capturing and coarse control the planet back up to the screen and it overshoots, finally get it back on screen after say 20-30 seconds and io has dissappeared.

Didn't take long at all.

On going thru the video, i salvaged 100 odd frames and put this messy crescent of io together.

Bird mentioned it travels fast, but I did not really realise how fast io moves in 90 seconds!!!

Better luck next time

[Dennis]

Good effort Dave, in spite of the technical glitch! 10 out of 10 for trying, you pulled it off.

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

Nice one Dave.

[bird]

Nice one DP, yes it zips along very quickly, maybe 3x faster than Jupiters rotation speed when its close to the planet.

Bird

[ving]

what tha!!!!
dave, i've not seen anyone try this before!
your tha man!!!
:D

[iceman]

What are you talking about Ving (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=8803)? You even replied to it :)

Excellent effort Dave, looks like you had a bit of variability in the seeing there, or was it low on the horizon at the time? Io looks a little colour misaligned.

Great persistance! Shame about the hardware probs at the time.

[ving]

i thing i missed the whole cresent thing.... well its more obvious in daves :P
I think i was more impressed with your animation mike :)

(memory slipping :()

[davidpretorius]

yes ving, mike has done it, that what made me have a go!

[ving]

ok you 2, stop picking on my poor memory!!! :P

[davidpretorius]

official IIS bully policy:

"If you feel you are being unfairly picked on, or suffering from unwanted actions from "bullies", then please contact your nearest moderator"

1ponders is your first point of contact, he is loving and caring, but not if you have a reflector and take pictures of planets.

if not successful with 1ponders, then your next point of call is asimov. whilst not technically a moderator, he will pull out the duct tape, welder & extension tube and you won't have to worry about bullies any more.

If you are being picked on by the boss, then let us know so we can all join in ..................mob rules!!!!

[ving]

:lol2:

[Robert_T]

Davo, the seeing must have been pretty good to pull that from 100 frames under those conditions. You've been doing some amazing stuff!

[davidpretorius]

yup rob, it was very good.

mike has been stacking 100 frames for a while now. My 10th april final jupiter was 200 stacked.

In a few more days, I will re look over the data and have a rip at io surface detail.

[ving]

to think, it was only a few month ago that getting detail from the moons of jupiter was just wishful thinking...
leaps and bounds dave, leaps and bounds!:)

[davidpretorius]

cmon vingo, get yourself a toucam 840k, join the fun!

[ving]

i was thinking of getting merlins vesta, but there are so manything i want to buy i need to put them in some sorta order....
low power EP
travel scope
sunnies for fishing
webcam fer pics
get the car serviced
etc....