SGL 2022 Challenge 1 - Animations

[MartinB]

There was a fascinating selection of entries for this challenge some of which appealed because of the technical challenge involved and others for their aesthetic qualities.  

1st Aramacheck

Not only is this animation technically well captured but it is superbly presented.

 

2nd Sleepy Kiki

This breathtaking Northern Lights animation might have some of you arranging a winter holiday in Northern Norway!

https://stargazerslounge.com/uploads/monthly_2022_03/Aurora_March_2022.mp4.9fa984086247ebaa546da2f26a21623b.mp4

3rd AlexJ

The historic launch of the JWT gave a chance to record the telescope at a huge distance from the earth.  Well done everyone who managed to produce a very challenging animation.  This entry was our top pick.

 

Well done everyone who entered.  There are more terrific animations in the original challenge thread.  Well worth a look.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/388392-sgl-2022-challenge-1-animations/

 

[wimvb]

Congratulation, winners. Awesome entries!

[tomato]

Congratulations to the worthy winners, a lot of work went into them.👍

[gorann]

I am stunned! Have no idea how to do this, so also very impressed.

[Aramcheck]

Gosh! Many thanks! I think I just got lucky that night & hadn't thought of entering the competition until @tomato & @Clarkey suggested it (Cheers! 🍻).

Processing the data was a bit of a challenge, as I ran out of memory on my old PC and disk space on the laptop, so had to keep swapping files between the two...

Many thanks!
Ivor

[happy-kat]

Fabulous entries, a great challenge, well done those are great

[carastro]

Congratulations to the winners.

Carole 

[Pete Presland]

Congratulations to the winners, those northern lights from @Sleepy Kiki were especially stunning to watch.

The asteroid animation by  @Aramcheck   was incredibly detailed and excellently presented.  Great work from @AlexJ for capturing the JWT as well, not an easy task at all.