Dennis' animated gif of Saturn and the GWS

[iceman (Mike)]

Here's Dennis' fantastic animated gif of Saturn showing the rotation of the Great White Spot (storm)!

Incredible stuff Dennis!

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/downloa...nis-saturn.gif (250k)

[Dennis]

Thank you!

Now that I’ve had the opportunity to pause for breath and get some sleep after the nights of good seeing and the days of strenuous processing, I would just like to say thank you to everyone. Thank you for your nice words and encouragement – they helped inspire me to get out there even whilst tired, and maintain the rage with Registax.

Being a member of the IIS community has improved my knowledge and skills and I am grateful for the help and advice I have received, as well as the opportunities to learn from the amazing work of others in the community.

Thanks to Mike also for hosting the animated gif’s; it is hard to imagine that these distant gas giants, in their frigid outposts of our solar system, have had their rotation revealed by the humble yet mighty webcam.

Thanks!

Dennis

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Excellent outcome Dennis.

What program are you using for your animations?

Thank you Dennis for being a part of IIS. It's great to see accomplished imagers posting their results here first. And getting the full support of the active community.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Excellent outcome Dennis.

What program are you using for your animations?

Hi Paul

Here is the overall work flow:

Capture the avi's via K3CCDTools
Process each avi in Registax whose output is a series of bmp image files
Open the bmp's in ImagesPlus to align then crop and save as bmp's
Open the aligned/cropped bmp's in K3CCDTools and save as an avi.
Open the avi in Corel PhotoPaint 12 and save as a gif

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

well done ice and dennis!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Dennis, you might be interested in having a play with this gif animator. It used to be about a month trial, don't know if that's changed but it's loads of fun. http://www.gif-animator.com/

[RB (Andrew)]

Well done Dennis and Mike.
Awesome stuff.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

do you have Photoshop Dennis. You should be able to do it as well in Adobe Illustrator that comes packaged with PS.

[ving (David)]

great stuff dennis!

[h0ughy (David)]

awesome, fast storm too. nice to be able to appreciate it too.

[Robert_T]

love your work Dennis!

the movement of that storm shows just how fast saturn's atmosphere is racing around!