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Hi Aaron
Thanks for your interest and questions. During that session, Jupiter was over 35° separation from Uranus, so there was no light pollution from Jupiter. I think that the planet Neptune was less than 10° from Jupiter though? The field of view of the animation is approximately 4 x 3 arcmins so it is quite tiny indeed. For comparison, the full Moon is approximately 30 arcmins in diameter, which is 1/2°.
The ST7 CCD camera records 765x510 pixel frames, one at a time in the FITS or proprietary SBIG format; it is a “still” camera rather than a webcam. When I process the frames (files), I finally save them as JPGs so that they can be viewed in the Forum and it also keeps the file size to a minimum.
Cheers
Dennis
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