Animation of Ganymede and Europa transiting Jupiter (26/10/2022)

[NenoVento]

Hi all,

At last I finished processing the captures I made on the 26th of October with the transit of Ganymede and Europa (featuring also the GRS at the beginning and Io making a fleeting appearance from behind Jupiter's shadow near the end, I swear it is there, but only in a frame, by the top left corner) and decided to make this animation:

The gear:

• Celestron C8 XLT
• Sky-Watcher HEQ5
• Baader Q-Barlow 2.25x
• ZWO ASI224MC

The software:

• CDC
• EQMOD
• Firecapture
• Autostakkert
• Registax
• The gimp

Thanks for looking,

NV

Edited October 30, 2022 by NenoVento
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[Kon]

Excellent animation.

[StarryEyed]

That looks like a lot of hard work. You must be very happy with the results. 

[maw lod qan]

Excellent!

I'm always pleased just seeing bright specks for the 4 large moons.

Seeing them as real moons as in your images is awesome!

[geoflewis]

Superb animation, smooth as silk.

[NenoVento]

 

Thanks @Kon, @StarryEyed, @maw lod qan and @geoflewis. I made 64 captures of 2 minutes each almost consecutively. Processing them took quite a while... Pitty that at the end I couldn't work with gimp to make the animation with the images at RGB, so I had to transform then to indexed colours, loosing some resolution.

[Kon]

1 hour ago, NenoVento said:

 

Thanks @Kon, @StarryEyed, @maw lod qan and @geoflewis. I made 64 captures of 2 minutes each almost consecutively. Processing them took quite a while... Pitty that at the end I couldn't work with gimp to make the animation with the images at RGB, so I had to transform then to indexed colours, loosing some resolution.

Gimp has a function to convert to gif or you could add the images in PIPP and make the gif there.

[neil phillips]

Yes as has been said. Very smooth animation. Excellent detail too

[NenoVento]

Thanks @neil phillips. @Kon, as per your suggestion, I tried PIPP but, unless I'm doing something wrong, gimp makes a far better job. I do like the back and forth option PIPP provides, but you cannot control the time between frames (or at least I couldn't find the way to do it) and the result is less smooth, as you can see below:

 

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by NenoVento