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Animation - Jupiter and Io at End of Io Transit on May 8, 2018, JDJ

Animation - Jupiter and Io at End of Io Transit on May 8, 2018

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My first attempt at a planetary animation. A little rough, but a fun learning experience...

This animation was generated from a sequence of 12 images from the end of Io's transit of Jupiter starting at 5:07 UTC May 8, 2018. Each image is a stack of the best 25% of typically 600 frames captured at ~100 FPS. I ran an imaging capture run every ~3 minutes. The animation was generated using the free online animation tool at: http://gifmaker.me/ (saw a nice animation on the CN Solar System Imaging Forum that used this). This experience makes me appreciate all the work that goes into the fine animations seen on Astrobin and CN. I have many more frames that could be used in the animation, but the consistency between images varied pretty widely and this series worked the best.

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