[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Hi Trevor

Another wonderful image of the God of War – quite remarkable for the small apparent size and low altitude. You had me drooling when I first saw the thumbnail; I initially thought that the (unresolved) letters S and W might have been Phobos & Deimos!

The animation is quite lovely too – some of the frames are real corkers! How did you manage to obtain such a smooth animation with a gibbous Mars? I suspect alignment might have been a challenge with the non-circular disc?

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis, putting together the animation was not really to much of a hassle. Prior to making it I load my images into Photo Shop CS4 and take quite some care with cropping and then resizing the canvas so that the subject of the image is as centrally located as possible and that all the frames are the same size. Then in animation shop I align a registration mark for the Y axis and individually align every frame, then shift the registration mark and do the same for the X axis. I keep repeating this, making ever smaller adjustments until I am happy with the result.

Originally Posted by Jen

that looks cool Trevor keep em coming

Thanks Jen, appreciate your comment, a bit of positive feedback makes the early mornings worthwhile,

Originally Posted by Lester

Thanks for the view of Mars Trevor with nice detail visible.

Its good to be able to get off the header after a long week and see the latest astro splendors on here. Too tired to do any astro stuff myself, so thanks for the view.

Thanks Lester, I hope the rain hasn't been to much of a problem for you.