Hi guys,
I’m still around! I still browse through the forums several times a day, I’m just a perpetual lurker.
So I spent last night (07-08-2009 through 08-08-2009) putting this animation together of Jupiter. I captured an AVI every 5 minutes between 10:30pm and 1:00am – 2.5 hours. Was very cold! I used my 10” Newtonian scope on a vanilla EQ6 mount with a DMK21AU04.AS CCD and a 2X Barlow. I used Registax to process the frames, used PCRE to centre them all, resized them to 150% for image scale then used Beneton Movie GIF to put the animation together.
Here is the result – Warning: Big File! ~ 3.4 mb!
I didn’t get the “Bird Strike” in this animation (
), but I did get Europa, Io and the GRS.
I have a question though – if you watch the animation, you’ll see that towards the end Jupiter starts to get a bit dimmer. This confused me as I was using the same exposure settings for the entire session and Jupiter was still quite high in the sky. Would this have been due to seeing conditions? I checked the mirror etc for dew, but didn’t see any. Any ideas?
Thanks!