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Jupiter Fly-by, Jason Guenzel

Jupiter Fly-by

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As I continue to practice my planetary capture, I find myself exploring different techniques for presentation. My lunar flyover GIFs seemed well received, so I've taken my recent Jupiter frames and did something similar. Jupiter is much more challenging since I'm pushing the resolution capability of an 8" scope. I had very decent seeing on 17-APR, so I put together this little animation.

Its like a personal trip on Voyager. ;)

The animation is composed of 13 individual de-rotated RGB Jupiter sequences spanning 5 hours, and a backdrop panorama from a clear night in Northern Michigan in July of 2015. It was put together with a combination of Firecapture, AutoStakkert!2, PixInsight, WinJupos, Photoshop, and Lightroom. The 3D lighting and rendering was done in Photoshop and took about 2 days to render the original 550 frames.

The best image from the night on Jupiter is here...



Hopefully it plays well. It works better on a desktop or laptop and becomes choppy on some mobile devices. GIFs aren't perfect for smooth playback.

I'm still working on improvements to the technique, and probably the biggest challenge is using my own images (vs. just downloading a high resolution Jupiter map).

Enjoy the different point of view!

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