Comet jacques........

[wavydavy]

Comet Jacques. a single raw image no real proper processing, ive got a ton of data, so hoping to make a video showing the movement against the stars..........taken a few hours ago.........Much better images to come, this was done on the quick.........can anyone advise me on how to do movie clips out of fit files, or I can convert to jpeg........then create movie.

[Pete Presland]

nice capture, never managed an animation myself but there have been quite a few of Jacques on here so i am sure somebody will be along soon.

[strinjf]

I made my Jacques time lapse videos by loading all the JPEGs into Windows Live Movie Maker.  I then set the duration for the entire movie so that each frame (an 18 second sub) would last about 0.15 second in the video and put a dissolve transition between the frames to make the thing look nice and smooth.  Came out all right I'd say.  Shame about my dodgy mount tracking

[happy-kat]

Can use quicktime to create a video from a group of jpegs.

[Mukv]

Very nice.

it looks almost 3D !

Andy

[szymon]

That's a very nice time lapse!

[themos]

I made my Jacques time lapse videos by loading all the JPEGs into Windows Live Movie Maker.  I then set the duration for the entire movie so that each frame (an 18 second sub) would last about 0.15 second in the video and put a dissolve transition between the frames to make the thing look nice and smooth.  Came out all right I'd say.  Shame about my dodgy mount tracking

Nice! What are the odds that I picked it up just as you left it?

[strinjf]

Nice! What are the odds that I picked it up just as you left it?

Nice video, and a great co-incidence   Looks like your video starts just as the comet was passing real close to that star at about 22" in my video.

Only just started playing with my LX modded webcam (3 nights so far) and I'm really enjoying this new aspect of the hobby!

[wavydavy]

Im loving the posts on here of the time lapse videos.....Ive done one now, but I think ive gota adjust my settings again as the gaps are to long (slow).........

[themos]

Im loving the posts on here of the time lapse videos.....Ive done one now, but I think ive gota adjust my settings again as the gaps are to long (slow).........

Well, I used IRIS for my DSLR RAW files (which calibrates and registers, saving FITS files). I then had to manually create a text file with commands to load each frame, adjust the low-end and the high-end (command VISU) and write a .BMP file. Then Windows Live Movie Maker did the rest.

[strinjf]

@themos, I wish my mount tracked as well as yours

[themos]

@themos, I wish my mount tracked as well as yours

You are looking at registered and calibrated frames, not raw ones from the camera. I cheated!

[Davey-T]

If you use P'Shop you can make an animated GIF and post it direct to the forum. saves having to use You Tube.

Dave