Jupiter animation : Ganymède slides behind the gazeous giant

nzv

Hello, me again :)

Here is an animation showing Ganymede sliding behind Jupiter.

I shot it during the night between 2014/03/05 and 2014/03/06, around 11PM TU.

I took 13 videos of 3000 images, covering a period of about 15 minutes, then I stacked about 800 frames per video, with Autostakkert.

I used Iris to make the deconvolution of each "master" frame then I assembled the whole thing under The Gimp.

I used a C11 celestron, an ASI120MC camera equiped with an IR-cut filter and a Lumicon Wratten #8, the light yellow one.

I hope you guys like it because it took me a very loooonnnngggg time to make it :)

Sam@ZWO

nice! animation is hard job

ndb

Beautiful, fine and very smooth.

A color camera seems to be by far the best choice to shoot such quick events. I failed with my monochrome one (the moon's shadows are shifted and colored, I was unable to reassemble them correctly with WinJupOs despite the stream derotation - perhaps the shadows has different speeds). Even without shadows, the derotation is often not very accurate on the moons.

But your animation is perfect, with a constant quality over all of the images.

You certainly did a long job. That's very nice.

Nicolas.