Peter Rosen Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Hi all, Some days ago I released a new project at animating the cloudbelts of Jupiter and the GRS. In order to have an almost continuous monitoring of Jupiter, we contacted 91 amateurs from all around the world to ask for permission to use their images in this project. It took a full year and thousands of hours of work to get all the pieces in place but I'm quite pleased with the results. John Rogers, Director of the Jupiter section at the British Astronomical Association has written: "An amazing animated map of Jupiter's winds has been released by Peter Rosen and colleagues in Sweden, portraying real observations from images by amateur astronomers over 3 months in 2014-2015. The map (in various projections and perspectives) shows Jupiter's winds in glorious detail, and this is by far the best such movie ever produced from ground-based images -- worthy to compare with the Cassini movie." I hope you enjoy it It is now up and running at https://youtu.be/YZc1Y662jtk /*Peter Rosén 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeDnight Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Simply stunning! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furrysocks2 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Fascinating to see the giant in motion. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triton1 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Wow excellent very mesmerising in places and amazed at the amount of detail that had been captured,well done to you and everyone else's hard work.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Terrific video. Well done to all who participated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronl Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 A mammoth task executed to perfection, a really beautiful animation, you must be thrilled with the result, I could watch it all night, a very big thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmarch Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Fascinating video. Thanks for posting. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Rosen Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Thank you very much for your comments. Quote Wow excellent very mesmerising in places and amazed at the amount of detail that had been captured,well done to you and everyone else's hard work.? Thank you Jonn, the amount of detail is also what made this project so difficult as even tiny mapping errors will show upp as a misalignment and double contours etc... Interestingly, in the end, the high definition is carried along by the best images while those of lesser quality merely show up as a little local turbulence, they don't reduce the overall quality the way I was afraid they would. Quote A mammoth task executed to perfection, a really beautiful animation, you must be thrilled with the result, I could watch it all night, a very big thank you. Thank you Ron, my friend Göran Strand said about the same to me, that he could watch it for hours and asked me to put online the basic cylindrical map and the polar ones, just looping over and over again and that is the way that I like to watch them as well. In my opinion, there are so many tiny vortices at all latitudes that are thrilling to follow and you get a better understanding of the dynamics of the flows. That's basically the ultimate scope of this video. /*Peter R 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnfosteruk Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Absolutely marvellous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Nothing further to add really, a wonderful project and amazingly well processed and presented. I will spend a long time viewing this over and again, it shows so much in terms of the dynamics of the systems. Great work!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerrylewis Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I've only just caught up with this. Really stunning and shows what can still be achieved by amateurs. I can see me referring to this for comparison when we get some decent conditions for viewing. The result is obviously the result of much hard work for which you and your collaborators should be congratulated. Well done Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdance Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Late to this flat-out gorgeous video too....*utterly* beautiful and captivating, my utmost congrats and thanks to all involved. I never realised/appreciated the sheer speed difference in the belts, and ...the 'little red spot' below the GRS - I don't think my eyes/scopes can resolve that, but I'm sure gonna try! A *big* ghost-thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkis Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Many thanks for this terrific depiction of big Jove in motion. Many contributions, and lots of work to create this animation, and we're grateful to all involved in the project. Great stuff indeed . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N3ptune Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 wow that's phenomenal! Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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