Using PIPP

[Carole]

On Duncan and Kenny's advice I downloaded and had a go with Pipp to do the animation for the lunar eclipse.

I already had stacked and processed the images so all I needed was an animation.  I ticked centred and allowed crop and it seems to have worked better than what i had done before, though it seemed to get a bit confused when the Moon started to become a crescent, but the centring is definitely better.

It has saved as an AVI, there doesn;t seem to be an option to save as a Gif file.  How do I upload this to the forum?  Tried to upload it to the gallery but it said the file was too big.

I haven't yet tried uploading it elsewhere and linking it. 

Carole

[Carole]

I've uploaded it to Google+

https://plus.google.com/111601086238135019825/posts/E2Me2NHZKXH?pid=6201767362635646418&oid=111601086238135019825

[Kenny]

It does gif and avi.

There is an option to tell it that it's the sun or moon and which side the shadow is on but there isn't a setting for eclipses where the shadow moves so it does get a bit confused.

[Kenny]

Also you need to be careful with the object detection and quality threshold settings or it will discard frames. There's also a tick box to switch off so it orders the frames in order not quality order.

[Carole]

Thanks Kenny, I missed the GIF selection.  Think I have got it now, will post on relevant thread. 

Carole

[The Thing]

The more I have used PIPP the more I appreciate what it can do. The guy who writes it, Chris, is really nice and helpful and didn't even mind when I found a WinJUPOS naming bug , which he fixed sharpish. If you have been through the tabs you will have seen time/date and WinJUPOS naming options.

[Carole]

I saw the Winjupos options Duncan but I have no idea what this is for or does as yet. 

Carole

[The Thing]

What it does is take the names of images or AVI, lets you extract the
date and time (first option) then it will create a WinJUPOS compatible
filename with a mid capture time and date for the output file(s). This
helps a lot when you come to de-rotate planets in WinJUPOS as it needs
this information and can extract it from the filename if its formatted
correctly, it's a sort of standard in planetary processing.
Firecapture and SharpCap both support WinJUPOS filenaming.

HTH