How to do an animation?

[Stargazer Jack]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what is the best way of doing an animation of Jupiter's moons and the planets features. Would it be doing 3 minute filming and then stacking that image and keep doing that for two hours say? Or is there another good way of making one.

Thanks in advance

[Space Cowboy]

Depends how much HD space you have. To get a nice smooth animation taking 3 min avis continually is the best way but if you want to maximise the amount of rotaion then spacing them out every 5-10 mins would produce a fairly smooth run over a longer period. Chris (Cgarry) posted a 4 hr rotation a few days ago. The longest I've done was 3 hrs before the HD was full.

[Stargazer Jack]

Thanks for the help and wow, that is amazing!

[Freddie]

Yes, that's about it with a bit of a gap between AVIs. You may also want to have a look at the recent animation thread in "Imaging - image processing"

[Stargazer Jack]

Will do that Freddie, thanks

[stephen_usher]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what is the best way of doing an animation of Jupiter's moons and the planets features. Would it be doing 3 minute filming and then stacking that image and keep doing that for two hours say? Or is there another good way of making one.

Thanks in advance

As I've posted elsewhere, here's a film I made about how I made a time-lapse film of Jupiter last year...

http://youtu.be/i9SROEO09HM