Jupiter Animation - The Sequel!

[MarkS]

Here is the final version - it covers 4.75 hours from Friday 3 Sep 22:00UT onwards - 80 frames in total.
The varying quality of the individual frames is wholly due to variations in tranparency and seeing.

Here is one of the better frames:


It's a 3.3Mbyte download:  http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2010/jupanimation3sep2010v2.gif

The surface detail on Ganymede is genuine and is similar to Pete Lawrence's image taken the same night:
http://ukastroimaging.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50183.0

Enjoy!

Mark

[PhilB]

That's a seriously nice animation, Mark. Unlike a number of attempts I've seen, the planet does not sway or wobble around. It would be nice to see some of the best frames as stills and larger, especially those that show the detail on Ganymede. The only question I would ask is why Jupiter seems to have reversed it's rotation? 

[Mac]

very nice,

Mac.

[mickw]

Excellent stuff Mark

[MarkS]

The only question I would ask is why Jupiter seems to have reversed it's rotation? 

The diagonal on the scope flips Jupiter over - I forgot to flip it back in the first animation but I did flip it back for the second one.

[PhilB]

I thought it would turn out to be a silly question, but I assumed that you had the camera directly on the back of the 'scope.

[Mike]

The detail in that is amazing. You can even see some detail on the moon!!!

[MarkS]

I'm extremely pleased with it - I even sent it off to APOD but I'm not very hopeful of a response.

For my next trick I need 2 successive clear nights with good seeing then I can cover the whole surface of Jupiter and do an animation of one complete rotation (10 hours) - hoping of course that the essential features don't change too much between one night and the next.

Mark

[Rocket Pooch]

very nice, I guess it kinda pointless sending this to a magazine 

[The Thing]

Sky at Night could put it on their CD... 

It's only a matter of time until there is active paper available for this sort of thing. It would be a bit like in Harry Potter.

[mickw]

A magazine could put one frame on each page then you just "flick" the corners 

[Fay]

Superb Mark, does seem to be detail on the moon!

[Mac]

Just looking at the APOD and the link for your starship asterisk.
and noting that todays APOD is on that website

Why dont you submit your Jupiter animation to the APOD website?
Or have you already done that and are just waiting for the announcement

Mac

[MarkS]

Why dont you submit your Jupiter animation to the APOD website?

I did - it ended up on Starship Asterisk - it's on the "Recent Submissions: 2010 September 11-13" thread.

That's how I found out about Starship Asterisk

[Mac]

so there's still hope that it will appear then.

Well fingers crossed.