Vesta movement Feb 20 / 21st

[DarkerSky]

The weather gods gave me a break last night and so I decided to capture the position of Vesta at the start and end of my obsy session.

The first sketch was taken at 21.15 UT in my 16" Magx70. I really like the starfield it is in at the moment. Some visually pleasing asterisms in it

I then went inside to get a template run off of the starfield, and removed Vesta from the template with a bit of computer jiggery-pokery

Just before I finished up at 01-30 UT I plotted Vesta again in the starfield. Definite movement as you can see!

What I'd love to do is put this into a slide animation or something similar so I can see Vesta blinking across the starfield. I will have to investigate how to do that

[LukeSkywatcher]

I'll have a go at doing a rollover image. I've done it but not sure where to upload it.

You can do it yourself here:

http://www.kreativrauschen.com/tools/roll-over-generator/

Then copy the "code" at end of the page and paste it into notebook and save it as vesta.html "all files"

[yeti monster]

Nicely recorded Vestaness, I need to get out and do some sketching again soon.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Hope you dont mind. I uploaded it to my server/web space:

*link removed by myself*

[DarkerSky]

That's brilliant Paul - thanks . How did you do that?

[LukeSkywatcher]

Better yet..here is the animated gif: click on it to see it work. You can download it also just save it to your computer.

How did i do it?

3 yrs of college studying web design.

Hahaha i STILL use free online software for images etc because its cheap (i'm a cheapy chappy).

Here's the link for the FREE trial version of the software i used:

http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/download.php

(i hope i am not being bold by posting a link to free trial software. IF any mod deems the link a NO-NO.........please feel free to remove it)

I'll now remove the link to my webspace because i dont want anyone to think its my image.

Enjoy.

[chrisrnuttall]

you can make an animated gif in photo shop if you have it, there is a descent tutorial to explain it.

[LukeSkywatcher]

you can make an animated gif in photo shop if you have it, there is a descent tutorial to explain it.

True, but PS really is a graphics pack for advanced/professional users.

There are so many free online imaging packages that cater for beginners that give instant results.

I really am NOT an imaging person............. YES i am fully trained in PS.........but HTML is my forte.

IF graphics are not your field then PS can be very daunting.

[lunator]

Seb

Excellent images

I use UnFREEz software to generate an animated gif.

Cheers

Ian

[DarkerSky]

Thanks for all the info on animations. It's something I'll have to find some time to get into I think

[stefski]

Great stuff, Jay.....love the animations!

Stef