First Jupiter from the 26th

iceman (Mike) · #1 27-03-2006, 08:14 AM

Here's my first effort from the morning of the 26th March.

I got up at around 2:00am first, but the seeing wasn't very good and clouds came over - so I only got 1 avi. Went back to bed. Got up again at 4:00am, no clouds and much better seeing.

Took 15 avi's in total, with the Io shadow transit, the beginning of an Io transit, and Ganymede coming out of the shadow of Jupiter. The seeing fluctuated a fair bit, but hopefully the quality is good enough across the range to do another animation.

Here's the first of the 15. I had to create a composite to get the moon in, as ppmcentre cropped it out so I did a run of processing on the planet, and then used the avi with registax aligned on the moon to create the second image.

I then copied the moon image as a new layer on the planet image in photoshop, and cut out the planet area of the moon layer to combine them.

I've got a long week of processing ahead, i'll try and get it done before SPSP!

Comments welcome.

Robby · #2 27-03-2006, 09:08 AM

Dedication mate.
How you constantly drag yourself out of the sack and these ungodly hours is beyond me! True dedication. It obviously pays off. You have had some wonderful images lately. Well done.
Cheers

davidpretorius · #3 27-03-2006, 10:11 AM

lovely white circles there mike, the seeing may not have been the greatest, but there is great detail regardless.

Robert_T · #4 27-03-2006, 12:01 PM

ANother lovely Joop Mike! The quality you're consistently putting out is great. This one has a nice 3-d feel with the moon and shadow.

My effort from the same time suffered a little more from seeing.

cheers,

ving (David) · #5 27-03-2006, 12:45 PM

more great stuff mike

asimov (John) · #6 27-03-2006, 12:46 PM

Thats a great image Mike, yes it has the 3D look. Lovely image & congrats

Rodstar (Rod) · #7 27-03-2006, 08:49 PM

Lovely shot, mate. When is it going to start rotating?!

iceman (Mike) · #8 28-03-2006, 06:43 AM

Thanks guys, still busy processing through the others.. Hopefully have an animation by the end of the week if i'm lucky.

Rodstar (Rod) · #9 28-03-2006, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Thanks guys, still busy processing through the others.. Hopefully have an animation by the end of the week if i'm lucky.

We will all look forward to that, Mike.

I'm not sure what the next challenge for you is after animations of planets....animations of supernovae? Now THAT would get you back on APOD.