12 Frame Jupiter rotation w/ Moons and Great Red Spot

Posted by EXOSEARCH
on Thursday, August 5, 2010

by Jason Higley

29 July AM U.T. Cent. FL, 8" Criterion RV-8, TMB Planetary II EP, 2x Celestron Ultima Barlow, $79.95 Insignia NS-DV720P video camera at 60 FPS in 12 AVI's (needed to get different codec from sourceforge for VirtualDub to see these x.264 videos), Registax 5 to stack and align (including alignment of Jupiter for animation), Gimp 2 for GIF animation.  Two moons flying through are Io and Europa. Did not tweek the color, kept brightness low on purpose. File size is only 175K.

12 frame Jupiter rotation w/moons & GRS

Tags: Jupiter
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