Jupiter and Io animation (GRS transit – 63 frames)

[Dennis]

I noticed that the GRS was predicted to transit the earthward-looking face of Jupiter on 9th April 2016 with Jupiter at a reasonable altitude. I captured the 1st avi (of 63) at approx. 7:19pm and the final one at 10:19pm with Jupiter having transited at 9:41pm AEST (UT+10).

I used the Mewlon 180 with a Tak x1.6 Extender and the ASI224MC CMOS camera from ZWO.

It took me while to punch the 63 avi’s through AutoStakkert2! And Registax6 before importing the output into CS6 to generate the .mp4 movie.

I have attached a mid-session frame from one of the avi’s when the seeing was at its best.

The following Jupiter / Io animation is a 600 KB animation (.mp4) which opens in Windows Media Player 12 when I click the link. You can right-click and save the file to avoid it opening in-session.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...%20800%20A.mp4

Cheers

Dennis

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Brilliant! Must have been a lot of work to put that together.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Nice one Dennis looks like some more good seeing.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Very nice Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

the master is at it again - love your work Dennis

[Dennis]

Thanks for the comments folks, I appreciate them.

It’s probably been over 10 years since I last did any serious planetary imaging (Philips ToUcam) and although my optics and mount haven’t changed in that period, I am astonished at how cameras and their associated capture and processing applications have advanced, not to mention the quantum leaps in processing power, RAM and drives to speed up the post-capture processing tasks.

For this set, it was relatively straightforward using Firecapture to set up a run sequence capturing 10 avi’s at a time (re-focus in between sets) and then Autostakkert2! for planetary alignment and stacking before passing the final .tifs into Registax6 for the application of Wavelets.

I then used ImagesPlus to Align the 63 tifs before importing as Layers into CS6 to then generate the sequence.

All in a night's work!

Cheers

Dennis

[Atmos (Colin)]

Fantastic effort Dennis, watched it a few times

[astronobob (Bob)]

Impressive work Dennis, as the boss in the A-Team says, "Love it when a plan comes together"

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

excellent work! so many frames!

[Dennis]

Thanks Colin, Bob and Russell, it was a breeze compared to contemplating the same task using the technology of 10 years ago when I last did this.

Cheers

Dennis