Contains:  Solar system body or event
Animation of the Transit of GRS and Io, ChrisG_BNE

Animation of the Transit of GRS and Io

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

With good seeing and a nicely collimated scope I decided to try a time lapse of Juipter.   The render here covers 11pm - 3:20am on Saturday night 31st July 2021 (AEST/Brisbane time). 

The equipment was a SkyWatcher Skymax180 Maksutov with an ASI183MM with filter wheel mounted on an EQ6R-Pro.  Guiding with low aggression to keep the planet reasonably in the centre of the field with a few small corrections every half hour. 

Each frame is from 1min video for each channel L(UV/IR)/R/G/B running at a resolution of 1024x768, and 44fps.  Lum: 3ms G320; B: 5ms G385; R: 5ms G400; G: 5ms G372.

Each channel stacked in AS3!, wavelet processed in RegiStax and processed in PIPP with a crop to 720 x 640.

Each LRGB set was then combined in ACDSee and assigned the correct colour channel (very manual process!).

The final files were then joined in PIPP.

There was 500Gb of video for this - I had to continually copy files off as my astro PC only has 128Gb space free at any time for acquisition.   
In total 10hrs continued processing today to generate this short animation. 
It is by far the best rendering of Jupiter I have ever achieved and I could not be happier with the outcome for the gear I have.

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