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Jupiter 5 hour animation transits & occulations Feb 26th


Space Cowboy

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My longest animation to date - 5 hours consisting of 62 images. Sadly seeing was poor to fair but I'm just pleased to have captured a busy Jovian evening. Starts at 19.28 and finishes 00.18 ut.

Taken with 10" Dob and QHY5L-II C :

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Thanks for your generous comments guys! I'm guessing it took about 10 hours processing. Maybe less. If I could batch process the stacked TIFF files in registax rather than have to use wavelets individually that would save a lot of time but it appears you can only do this with avi files.

I use EZ planetary too Paul and I keep the exposure histogram at about 80%. Although seeing was below average trans was very consistent so I could keep the gain and exposure settings roughly the same.

I would rather not have the field rotation but its almost impossible to manually correct this without causing the moons to "bounce" during the animation.

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Cheers Chris its thanks to your brilliant PIPP that makes these animations so much easier to produce! Now if you could develop an auto field rotation correction facility - that would be splendid!;-)

I am surprised WinJUPOS is not able to fix it, but it seems not.

I have actually given this some thought and I wonder if having a timestamp for each image would be enough to calculate the amount of field rotation and then remove it.  If you have a series of images with known times I could have a play to see if this approach is feasible.

Cheers,

Chris

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Thanks Chris I've just realised all I needed to do was increase the image size in winjupos derotation of images so it displays the moons. So I can correct them all in winjup. All this time I thought you could only realign the planet!

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Thanks Dror!

Cheers Angie yes 6 days rather than months lol

Well I got the rest of Jupiter's rotation last night though there were long cloud interruptions lasting 1 hour at a time plus the seeing was awful but I THINK I've captured the whole globe.

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Brilliant animation Stuart well worth the considerable effort that you have put in.  Just one question, which has been bugging me, how do you input EZPlanetary files into WINJUPOS?

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