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My first real attempt at a planetary animation (taken at the same time as the animation of Jupiter's moons found in my scraps [link] ). It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. It is made up of 13 frames taken during a two hour observing session during which the great red spot was visible, along with a moon and its shadow. The usual problem of the egg shaped images has occurred, and is mostly visible at the end of the animation as I had to keep the general proportions of the planet the same. I know how to generally fix this problem (its related to how I track the planets) and I will make an attempt to fix this. Anyway, enjoy it as it is.

EDIT (27-07-2007): I have updated the animation. I was quite bored today and I happened across the old frames of this animation. I decided I could improve upon their alignment and spent some time fixing them up. I also decided to add a 'reverse' movement so the animation would look more fluent. It still appears to jump around a bit - this is due to the fact that each frame came out slightly egg-shaped (as do most/all of my images) and it is quite hard to skew/re-size all the frames exactly the same. I did the best with what I had to work with. I think another Jupiter animation might be on the cards if I can put up with the cold sometime in the coming weeks.

Apparently you have to click the "Download" button to the left.

Enjoy!

Taken with 10" F5 Newtonian on Dobsonian base, captured with Panasonic mini DV video camera held to telescope with home made camera bracket. WinDV used to capture footage as AVI, Registax used to process. Each frame was aligned in photoshop and formed into an animation using animator9.

Description
My first real attempt at a planetary animation (taken at the same time as the animation of Jupiter's moons found in my scraps [link] ). It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. It is made up of 13 frames taken during a two hour observing session during which the great red spot was visible, along with a moon and its shadow. The usual problem of the egg shaped images has occurred, and is mostly visible at the end of the animation as I had to keep the general proportions of the planet the same. I know how to generally fix this problem (its related to how I track the planets) and I will make an attempt to fix this. Anyway, enjoy it as it is.

EDIT (27-07-2007): I have updated the animation. I was quite bored today and I happened across the old frames of this animation. I decided I could improve upon their alignment and spent some time fixing them up. I also decided to add a 'reverse' movement so the animation would look more fluent. It still appears to jump around a bit - this is due to the fact that each frame came out slightly egg-shaped (as do most/all of my images) and it is quite hard to skew/re-size all the frames exactly the same. I did the best with what I had to work with. I think another Jupiter animation might be on the cards if I can put up with the cold sometime in the coming weeks.

Apparently you have to click the "Download" button to the left.

Enjoy!

Taken with 10" F5 Newtonian on Dobsonian base, captured with Panasonic mini DV video camera held to telescope with home made camera bracket. WinDV used to capture footage as AVI, Registax used to process. Each frame was aligned in photoshop and formed into an animation using animator9.