Neptune and moons animation; Nereid & Triton

[Kal (Andrew)]

What a beautifully presented animation! Wonderful!

[Dennis]

Hello,

Here is a re-work of my Neptune, Triton and Nereid animation. This time I blended the raw files 50% with a combined background stack in an effort to make the animation appear more natural, although I had to discard the colour data by converting the frames to B&W to keep the file size down.

I locally reduced the brightness of Neptune/Triton so the separation between the two bodies was better revealed. I also locally brightened Nereid in each frame to lift it more above the sky background. Nereid is the tiny (moving) dot just above the centre of the frame.

Brrr…its cold that far out there in our solar system!

Cheers

Dennis

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Excellent work Dennis. As an alternative to animated gif you could try a javascript animation of the jpeg frames... You'll need somewhere to host the files and the html file with embedded javascript but it does get around size and quality limits...

cheers, Bird

[alexch (Alex)]

Superb effort. Thanks for sharing!

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Wonderful work Dennis, yeah the 2nd version does look more 'authentic' so to speak I like it a lot.