Jupiter and Io Animation 26-01-2015 23:50 captured at Beckenham

[The Thing]

Telescope aperture and focal ratio:   Meade LX90 8" UHTC, Moonfish 2" x2 ED Barlow, Moonfish variable extension tube and t-mount adapter, Pierro Astro Astmospheric Dispersion Corrector, (in that order). Unguided HEQ5 (bearings, power socket and belt drive mods).

Camera and filters used:   Phillips SPC900NC, Baader Neodymnium, Revelation UV/IR

Processing applied:   Autostakkert2!, Registax, JASC Annimation Workshop. Colour balanced at capture

[Kenny]

Wow. That's lovely.

[MarkH]

Duncan that is fantastic. Wow !!!! That has given me a kick up the back side to get learning.  Any idea what causes the dip in luminosity in io a few frames in?

[MarkS]

Fantastic animation!  Good detail and colour.  The red spot and a moon!  Really well done!

[The Thing]

Any idea what causes the dip in luminosity in io a few frames in?

Thin clouds, also the first couple of frames.

BTW it's composed of 25 frames from 60s captures at 10fps with 1min intervals keeping 40% of the best frames. The animation shows how fast Jupiter is rotating! The elapsed time is around 1h15m. Next step is to master WinJUPOS derotation :}

[Mike]

Great animation Duncan.

[JohnP]

Very smooth Duncan. I like it, John.

[The Thing]

Thanks everyone!

[Fay]

Duncan that  is so good!!!! how many frames?

[Ivor]

Excellent effort, I think we need another imaging session on your planetary workflow before you escape to France permanently!

[RobertM]

Crikey Duncan, that really is a superb effort and there is just so much detail.  That has to be your best to date.

That ADC is certainly doing the business.

Robert

[Carole]

That has to be your best to date.

I'd agree with that, have you got a stacked "still", there must be more detail than in your previous images.

Glad you said where you took it since you are in two places these days lol.

Carole

[doug]

Fantastic animation, Duncan. Well done. I only wish ........

Doug.

[The Thing]

A single image made from the 50% best frames on 60s capture @10fps. There is even colour and possibly features on Io, I didn't think this was possible with my scope.

[RobertM]

That's about a hundred times better than my best effort