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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: JohnP on Mar 03, 2009, 13:19:03

Title: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: JohnP on Mar 03, 2009, 13:19:03
Ok - I hope this is going to work.... I know how much Mike has been going on at monthly meets about doing an animation of a comet or something.. Below is animation of the 12X2min images I took of Lulin on Sunday night. File is animated GIF (approx 3.5Mb) so may take a while to load depending on your broadband...

Thks,  John.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/lulin_animation.gif)
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: RobertM on Mar 03, 2009, 14:02:03
Nice one John, that's turned out really well.
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: JohnP on Mar 03, 2009, 14:16:47
Thks Robert - could have done with more frames but at least it shows movement nicely - for the technical amongst you Image size is 659 X 494 pixels which with my imaging set up yields a FOV of 64 arcmins X 54 arcmins. I can count something like a 55 pixel movement between first & last frame (total time 24mins).

John.
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: Mike on Mar 03, 2009, 15:18:06
AT LAST!!!  :D

Nice one John. Great animation. That thing is whizzing along !!
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: Fay on Mar 03, 2009, 16:14:24
John, I am really impressed. What nice sharp stars excellent comet!!!!!!

So did you stack it like Greg?
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: JohnP on Mar 03, 2009, 16:18:02
Fay - I think you are still confused...

This is an animation so I just laid the frames over the top of each. The previous image I posted (with the dotted stars) was a stack....

Thks for the comments - John
Title: Re: Lulin Animation... Especially for Mike.
Post by: Mike on Mar 03, 2009, 17:32:17
Quote from: JohnP on Mar 03, 2009, 16:18:02Fay - I think you are still confused...

That's not hard to do, let's be honest...  ;)