Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter animation 2018-05-08, Josh Loum

Jupiter animation 2018-05-08

Jupiter animation 2018-05-08, Josh Loum

Jupiter animation 2018-05-08

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For fun I did Jupiter with the OTA on a regular tripod (no motors!) and ~20-30 second videos as it drifted across the ASI290's FOV. No barlows/focal extenders because of the already difficult task of keeping the planet in view.

This was just after midnight local time, and just at the end of Io's transit. I took some videos an hour or two earlier that better caught the transit, but they were too blurry mostly due to Jupiter being low in the sky, and having not collimated at that point in the evening.

6 frames total in the animation. For each frame, I took 1000 to 2000 video frames at 1ms, gain 300, at full resolution (to make it easier to keep the planet in the FOV) ~80fps. AutoStakkert 3 for stacking the best 20% (10% for one of the videos), PixInsight's MultiscaleMedianTransform for wavelets, and PIPP to create the animation (though I still haven't figured out how to remove the alt-az rotation).

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