Jupiter animation

Really nice animation Frank. You've got lots of detail and excellent contrast, no obvious indication of poor collimation. With the generally poor seeing in Ireland, that seems like a very good result to me. The movement of Io and the Jovian atmosphere is cool!

I took some shots the same night, around the same time as the last frame of your animation (200 mm Newt, Philips SPC880). The seeing here was poor and I'm still struggling to get a decent image. The shot below is the best I've been able to manage so far - it's no match on yours though. There seems to be an endless variety of processing methods though, so I'm still hoping to extract a little more from the original movies.

That's a nice animation Frank.

I've seen Damian Ps latest animations and they are simply jaw-dropping.
Aside from the level of detail he is capturing, I've love to know how he is getting such a well-aligned, consistent and smooth animation.

Michael.

Thanks Mykc.
Oh the scope is out alright.
But the strange thing is I've collimated it
the best I can and yet I'm still not happy with it.
Plus I shot at too high a frame rate and so the
images are grainy and I had the Gamma set too low.
All a learning curve.

A tip regarding processing Jupiter
with moons in the frame.
Do your regular procedure to get the best
Jupiter shot.
Then do a second run in registax but
focus on the moon. Select a starting frame
where the moon is nicely round and optimise
based on that area.
Process and enhance the stacked image to get the moon
as best you can. (dont worry about how Jupiter turns out,
you wont be using the jupiter part)
Now in Photoshop open your first Jupiter image processed and
create a new layer inserting the second 'moon' one.
Overlay the better processed moon onto the
first image and line it up as best you can.
then using the mask tool 'reveal in' the better processed moon.
Flatten the image and then you should have
a nice sharp image of both jupiter & moon together.

Michael,
thanks.
It's nice but not up to par I feel.
Iike in school my report card should say
'could do better'

Damian uses a prog to create those
animations.
Along with Winjup I think.
I cant remember.
Drop him a PM on FB
Hes a great guy to reply to
Q's like that.