Hello,
My name is Axel Canicio. I live in La Grand Combe, a little town in southern France.
I was lucky this last week-end to have the best seeing and stability conditions I've ever had for over ten years in my region. I decided to dust off the telescope and do some serious imaging.
The result is an animation of 4 hours worth of Jupiter's rotation.
The data is the following :
Location : Barjac, Southern France 44°5'N, 04°19'E.
Instrument : C11 @F10 with Barlow 2X.
Skywatcher Synscan EQ6 mount
Camera : The Imaging Source DBK 41AG02.AS
Software : Astrosnap Pro V2.3Alpha
Capture time : From 00h25 until 04h20 (GMT+1)
The video contains 1183 frames.
Each frame is the result of a loop integration of 200 frames. The software integrates (adds) 200 frames into a "sliding" buffer. When the buffer is full, each incoming frame kicks out the oldest frame in the stack.
Every 10 seconds I extract the composited frame and save it to a 48bit tiff file.
At the end of the capture session, I process all the frames with Photoshop using a script, and re-feed the resulting images to Astrosnap Pro.
Then the program does another loop integration with a buffer of 18 frames, processes them further with a wavelet filter, and finally stores the result in an AVI file.
This is
only one of the frames of the video :
http://www.astrosnap.com/Gallery/Jup...el-Canicio.jpg
Here is the
link to the full size video animation (
1183 frames, DivX6 codec duration : 39 seconds, size : 3.8Mb).
I also made an animated GIF, the size is reduced to 50%, and contains
only 230 frames. (It would have been too large if I had kept its original size) :
http://www.astrosnap.com/Gallery/Juju-100912-anim.gif
I hope I'll have some more nights like this !!
I see that some of you use a software called "winjupos", that can "paste" a map of jupiter on a rotating sphere.
This
IS NOT done with winjupos or any similar software.
It is a
real captured and processed series of frames !!.
Best regards.
Axel Canicio