Jupiter Transit Animation (16th)

[RobertCL]

Hi All,

It's been a while since I posted anything here because I've not had chance to get out with the scope. Last night was one of the best nights I've seen for a while though.

I wasn't really planning on doing this when I went out, but it seemed too good to miss.

Celestron C6-N, 4x Barlow, Philips SPC900N webcam, avi's all approx 60sec in length taken approx 15 mins apart, stacked in Registax, then animated in GIMP.

Enjoy,

Robert.

[beamish]

Very nice indeed ! well done !

[brianb]

Very nice!

You've even caught the "offending" moon one one of the frames ... not easy.

[Space Cowboy]

Love the animation Robert! How do you achieve that? My GIF animation attempt on Gimp lost its colour?

[MikeD]

Very nice result.

Mike.

[RobertCL]

Cheers, guys.

Stuart, to create the animation I just loaded the frames into GIMP as multiple layers and the did a save as GIF. There is an option when saving to either save as grayscale or indexed colour - maybe you have the grayscale one checked by default?

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Robert I will check that out.

[legion48]

Very nicely done Robert.