SGL 2023 Challenge 7 - Animations

[MartinB]

Start Date: 1st September 2023
End Date: 30th November 2023

This challenge was first run early in 2022 and we had some superb entries.

The challenge gives plenty of scope for  imagination, creativity and technical expertise.  If anything moves or changes in the sky your challenge is to capture this.  Easy eh!?!

Looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with.

 A personalised mug for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places featuring your entry kindly provided by our sponsors FLO  and a virtual trophy for your signature.

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RULES

All data must be captured and processed by you (no collaborative entries). 
Data must be captured during the challenge start & end dates.  Entries after the end date will not be included in the judging
Multiple entries are allowed.
Multiple submissions of the same image, processed differently, will not be accepted.

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To enter please post within this topic, do not start a new topic. Please post as much information as possible - when it was taken, how it was captured and processed, etc. The info won't necessarily be used for judging but will help fellow SGLers looking to learn and improve their knowledge and technique.

The thread is for image submissions only, please do not respond to entries other than by using emojies.  

[Kon]

International Space Station moon transit (04/09/23). 8" Dob, manual, NikonD3200. Edited in Gimp and a 30 frame gif in PIPP.

[Kon]

Jupiter with GRS and Callisto animation from the excellent seeing we had on 9/9/23. It is from 311-358 UTC. 8" Dob, manual, asi 462mc, UV/IR cut filter and 2.5xTV powermate. Edited in Registax, Astrosurface and put together in PIPP.

Edited September 10, 2023 by Kon

[GreatAttractor]

Jupiter with Ganymede and Io from 2023-09-07. The dark area on Ganymede is Galileo Regio; Io looks a bit flattened due to dark polar areas (cf. this Io transit animation).

Telescope: SW 250PDS (10" f/4.8 Newtonian), camera: Blackfly S (IMX 273), ZWO ADC, Meade Barlow 3x, Baader UV/IR-cut filter, processed with AS!3 and ImPPG. 7 ms exposure, 140 fps, approx. 7600 frames per video (5% stacked), 1-minute animation intervals, duration: 1:30 h.

(right-click a video for the looping option)

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by GreatAttractor

[Kon]

International Space Station two hours after the moon transit above  (04/09/23). 8" Dob, manual, asi462mc, 2.5xTV powermate, UV/IR cut filter. 20000 frames with ISS and hand picked every 500 to stack and create a frame. It is capturing the approach, zenith and departure. Not great seeing that night.

[clarkpm4242]

Aurora, of course!  From North Yorkshire on Sep 12/13th.  Punchard Toll House, Arkengarthdale.  An 'entrepreneur' illegally charged for passage of coal mined up near the Tan Hill Inn in the 1800s.

Two stills, a short time laspe x2, and a final still image.  Lightroom, Photoshop, Pictures2Exe and VSDC video editor.  Canon R8 and Sigma 24mm.  Cheers, Paul,

[doublevodka]

Aurora taken on my Pixel 6 mounted on a tripod on night mode in my garden in Ammanford (South Wales) Sunday 24th September, just before midnight, converted video to gif online using ezgif.

 

[Minhlead]

Jupiter through my C11 Edge HD, almost 2 hours of animation. Taken 03/10/2023

[WilliamAstro]

Jupiter's Rotation from 23rd September 2023 captured during the early morning hours.

EQUIPMENT

Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Svbony 2X Barlow

ZWO ADC

Skywatcher SynScan EQ3 PRO

 

SOFTWARE

Autostakkert!3

Registax 6

WINJUPOS

Photoshop

PIPP

[Minhlead]

Another Jupiter animation. still from the C11HD with QHY5III715C

Edited November 6, 2023 by Minhlead

[Space Cowboy]

Taken 11.22 UT- 12.41 Oct 27-28th 2023.

10" Flextube Auto track Dobsonian + QHY585c & ADC+2x Barlow+extension tube giving f14.5.

Twenty nine 2 min captures using Firecapture.

Autostakkert-Wavesharp-Image Analyser and animation generated in PIPP.

 

[clarkpm4242]

Bonfire Night in and above Reeth, Swaledale, North Yorkshire.  Canon R8, Sigma 24mm.  ~140 x 2s, iso 3200, f2.  Processed in Lightroom and Pictures 2 Exe.

Plays through twice.  Cheers, Paul.

Edited November 12, 2023 by clarkpm4242

[Minhlead]

Just in time for a solar animation.

After a boring week, the Sun is back with a new gang of ARs and oh boy do they deliver. The animation is so action packed that I can stare at it for hours and still find new things. There's corona rain, a mini flare, some surge action and a lot more. The seeing was good and it shows on the animation, it's a long time since I've done anything. I took some time off to upgrade the mount.
Enjoy!

Taken with my 152mm doublestack DIY solar scope with the PlayerOne Apollo M Max

[tomato]

Not many deep sky animations in the challenge so I thought I would give the Crab Nebula Pulsar another go. 

The pulsar is rotating at 30 times a second so the idea is if the light path from the star can be interrupted at the same frequency it should be possible to take subs that will capture the different light outputs from the pulsar.

This is done by placing a light tight rotating disk in the imaging train running at the required rpm, in this case an 8 vane rotor rotating at 225 rpm. Here is a video of it running up, the tricky part is making it nicely balanced so it doesn't impart any vibration onto the OTA.

 

 

 

The actual pulsar can be easily identified on an extended integration, this is 52 x 2 mins with the Esprit 150/ASI 178:

 A series of 100 subs were taken using 10, 20, and 30 second exposures, then it is a case of sorting these into those with the brightest and dimmest pulsar and stacking these. In practice it is not quite so straightforward as the crab nebula was climbing ever higher in the sky as the session progressed, so the later subs were of better quality.

The end result is a gif of a very close crop of the pulsar and an adjacent star, hopefully the change in the pulsar light output is noticeable. A few mind blowing facts about the pulsar,  it is about as big as a city but is 1.5x the mass of the sun and spinning at 30 times a second...

 

[uhb1966]

wow.

[Minhlead]

The passing clouds messed up the animation but I was still able to get a good look when the prom lifts away.
It's a shame I did not get better transparency.
The animation is taken at my remote observatory in suburb Ha Noi, Vietnam in 10-11 AM 23/11/2023

[Earl]

Can I enter this?

 

 

[WolfieGlos]

There's a lot of superb animations in this one, so here is my measly first ever attempt at an animation, on my second ever planetary session!

Captured early hours of 25th November (circa 02:30) so seeing was not great with Jupiter being lower in the sky, but here is my attempt at showing the shadow of Ganymede below the GRS. Europa and Io are also visible. I would have captured the whole transit if I hadn't have been on driving duty for the wife at her xmas party, so I only caught the second half of the pass.

Starfield 102 + 2x Barlow + ASI 585mc

12 x 3minute captures, each 50% stacked in ASI Studio. Wavelets in Siril, animation in PIPP.

 

Edited November 27, 2023 by WolfieGlos
Grammar

[MartinB]

This challenge has now closed.  The results will be announced within the next 2 weeks

[MartinB]

The results are in https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/417022-sgl-2023-animations-challenge/