New Jupiter Animation and images - 13th April

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

Here's the final results from a very nice session in the early morning of the 13th April, before heading off to the SPSP later that morning.

The 12 frame animation spans about 1.5 hours, and the seeing improved as the session went on. It's a 1.6meg gif file.

--> Jupiter Animation - 12th April UT <--

I've attached the 3 images below from the start, middle and end of the session (though the first image was in poorer seeing).

Images captured at 1/30s (30fps), 100% gain, gamma at 16. I stacked 500 frames from each of 3 alignment points, out of the 1200 or so captured (40 seconds on each colour channel). Focal length measured at 10,083mm.

The last 2 attachments are probably 2 of my best Jupiter images this season, with loads of fine detail visible and Oval BA very well resolved.

--> Jupiter Animation - 12th April UT <--

Thanks for looking. Comments/questions welcome.

[matt]

Great work, Mike.

The seeing was definitely variable that morning.

[Dennis]

Another excellent set of captures along with very nice processing Mike. I like the incrementing altitude and time features on the animated gifs – a nice touch.

Cheers

Dennis

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Mike, the planet rotates back and forwards as opposed to continuously in one direction, what is the reason for this, is it purely artistic?

[iceman (Mike)]

Ron, yes - purely for aesthetics. Rather than "jump" back to the start, the sweeping motion gives (in my opinion) a more pleasing view.

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Right also, your way gives you a true sense of the diameter of the planet, I like it

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Its not often i comment on planetary images but you have outdone yourself here Mike. Great images and a very natural look

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Very nice Mike Superb work.

[davidpretorius]

another set of fantastic images and animations.................awesome!

[hevelsky]

Yes fantastic images and animations
great work Mike !!!!

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Nice, very well done

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Nice one Mike, thanks!

Bird

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Fantastic images and animations, Mike. Hard to believe these are taken through a 12". Amazing amount of detail and consistent quality through the frames. Well done.

[Ric]

Love the animation Mike.

Top stuff

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it.

I think the animations give real life to the images, especially when you can see the various latitudes rotating at different speeds.

It's a lot of work, especially making every image look the same in terms of sharpness, colour, detail (where seeing permits), registration etc. but I think it's worth it. Your comments make it worthwhile.