First animation attempt - 35mins of Jupiter

RobF (Rob) · #1 03-10-2009, 08:02 PM

With the moon getting more in the way of late, it seemed like a good time to cross this off my list of things to try out.
Seeing was pretty terrible, but I persevered for 35mins to see what I could do. Pretty happy for my first try. Io visible in frames too. Has whet my appetite to do a longer capture when weather and moons/GRS favourable. Actually, playing with Starry Night, I'm surprised how fiddley it is to find a good time to capture a transiting moon and the GRS - all part of my education I guess.

65sec AVIs every 5mins using ToUcam + 2 x 2x barlows on 8" Newt. Stacked in Registax 5 and animated in Imageready.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/m...nimation-3.gif

astroron (Ron) · #2 03-10-2009, 08:08 PM

Good effort Rob

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 03-10-2009, 08:24 PM

You've gotta be happy with that for a first effort Rob.
Pity about the seeing though.

RobF (Rob) · #4 03-10-2009, 08:30 PM

Thanks Ron and Jeanette!
Catching up with both of you here is at least some compensation for not being at Cambroon together on a dark new moon night.....

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #5 03-10-2009, 08:33 PM

Are you going to 10 Chain Hill Rob?

RobF (Rob) · #6 03-10-2009, 08:37 PM

I've got my leave pass stamped and planning to try JJJ. Long range forecast looking pretty grim though

I'd love to get a good night in at Peter's.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/long-r...outheast-coast

multiweb (Marc) · #7 03-10-2009, 09:18 PM

That's very cool actually. You got some nice colors and details.

DavidU (Dave) · #8 03-10-2009, 09:44 PM

A fine job Rob. You should be a happy chappy

RobF (Rob) · #9 03-10-2009, 10:15 PM

Thanks Marc and David

For next time, I'm thinking I might lock my autoguider on to Callisto (slowest moving moon), then leave things go unattended for a few hours (checking focus periodically along the way). K3CCDTools has a nice timed AVI capture mode....