Jupiter Rotation Animation 2004/4/26
Jupiter Image Information
- Date: 2004.04.26 21:52 PDT to 2004.04.27 00:57 PDT
- 75 images each created from 2 minutes of stacking taken over 3 hours and 5 minutes
- Images taken from driveway
- From left to right are Europa, Io and Jupiter.
- Clouds at the end stopped further imaging.
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: 0.250 sec
- GAIN: 100
- OFFSET: 40
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 70
- EVALUATION COUNT: 10
- MONO: off
- KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedHard, Apply after 10 images
- HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
- HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
- HISTOGRAM LOG: off
- ROI: off
- OBJECT: Jupiter
- IMAGES: 120 seconds of images stacked
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on Jupiter
GIF Animation 396KB
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Animations
- Jupiter with moons, best quality, no compression, AVI file, 6,157KB Jupiter.avi
- Jupiter with no moons, best quality, no compression, AVI file, 2,119KB JupiterOnly.avi
- Jupiter with moons, Windows Media Video WMV file, 512Kbps, 279KB Jupiter512k.wmv Windows Media Player Series 9 required
- Jupiter with moons, Windows Media Video WMV file, 150Kbps, 157KB Jupiter150k.wmv Windows Media Player Series 9 required
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Argonaut™ 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope,
f/12 focal ratio, 1800mm focal length
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Telescope Mount: Orion EQ-3 mount with EQ-3M dual-axis DC motor drive on
Celestron vibration suppression pads
Imaging Processing
- Image quality selection and stacking was done automatically by Meade LPI software.
- JASC Inc. Paint Shop Pro Version 8.10, crop.
- JASC Inc. Animation Shop Version 3.10, create AVI and GIF.
- Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 5.1 SP2 create WMV.
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2004 David Haworth
