Jupiter in Stereo 3D

[Zac Pujic]

I've been experimenting with 3D stereo presentations of Jupiter.

Here is a 3D stereo image which requires Red-Blue glasses to show Jupiter as a 3D globe. Such glasses are usually supplied in Astronomy or Sky and Telescope magazines. To use the glasses, the red frame must go over the right eye (red=right) and the blue frame goes over the left eye. You can make such glasses with red and blue cellophane from a newsagent or art supply dealer.

Use your image viewer to change the size of the image to find the size that suits your eyes the best. Also change the brightness to suit your screen properties. Lastly, place the image on a dark desktop to reduce stray light.

This image shows the planet on June 4, 2005. Oval BA is visible near the CM before it turned red. Also visible in 3D are smaller SSTB ovals, blue projections along the NEBs, and NEB barges. Don't sit too close to the screen when viewing the image. Put your red-blue glasses on and let your eyes relax and acclimatize to the image. With a minute, the 3D effect renders the planet into a globe.

I'll be presenting a talk tonight (Saturday March 3, at the SAS meeting in Brisbane on how to achieve this technique, as well as a couple more images), if anyone wants to attend. Meeting starts at 7 pm at the SAS meeting place (see www.sas.org.au).

I'm working on a 3D movie right now which shows the rotation in 3D.

Enjoy!

Zac Pujic
Brisbane, Australia
http://astroimg.org

[middy]

That looks fantastic

I finally got to try out the red/blue glasses that have been sitting on my bookshelf for 6 months. My right eye is the dominant one though and the image kept flicking to red after a while as my right eye took control.

[Zac Pujic]

Thanks. Most people have a dominant eye. The way around that is to increase the brightness in the channel that goes to your weak eye. This is easily done in photoshop. I didn't do it as I'd have to make three images with equal eyes, dominant left and dominant right eye images.

I've put a 6 frame 3D stereo movie on my website at,

http://astroimg.org/jupiter.html

Zac

[RB (Andrew)]

Looking forward to trying it out Zac.
Got to make myself some Ray-Bans first though.
I like these sort of shots.

Thanks.

[Dennis]

Fantastic movie Zac - very impressive indeed. A lot of work has gone into this - thanks for sharing the results.

Cheers

Dennis

[Ric]

I had a pair of 3D glasses for about 25 years and now I cant find them
I'll have to nip down to the newsagent tomorrow and get some coloured plastic and make a new pair, I love this type of stuff.

It sounds like you are very talented in this area of imaging.

[Zac Pujic]

Dennis

Thanks. I'm trying to get my pictures in before Jupiter goes north in the next few years. We've been pretty spoilt! I feel sorry for the poor sods in the northern hemisphere. Damian Peach said he doesn't bother observing much from his place. Still, they've had Mars for a few years.

Going to duckadang this year?

Zac

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Zac Pujic

Dennis

Going to duckadang this year?

Zac

Hi Zac

Yes - I’ll be there for the whole week. I think its something like 6th to 12th August this year. Hope to see you there, along with other IIS’ers.

Cheers

Dennis

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Great stuff Zac

Thanks for the great presentation last night - very entertaining and very informative. I will have to dust off my ToUcam in the coming weeks and give old Jove a go.