Animated Jupiter, GRS and RS Jr.

Here is some animated gif web cam images of Jupiter, GRS and RS Jr.

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Animated Jupiter, IO and Europa

This is my first attempt for an animated GIF file. Captured with a web can on 7/19/08 this image is 360 sec. 4-90 sec. subs back to back. On my next session, I will attempt twice as many subs with more time in between them. That should show excellent planet rotation.

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Waning Gibbous 16.52 days old

This a web cam mosaic of 11 images consisting of 7800 subs stacked and merged. Taken 11:30 PM CDT 7/19/08

Jupiter, IO & Europa

Here is a web cam image taken last night at 10:30 PM CDT. This was my first attempt to capture the planet and some of it's moons. Seeing and transparency was above average, so I pushed up the power to 100x per inch. The final image is 790 frames stacked and used PSE 2.0 for final processing. Europa is the moon on the lower left.

Waxing Gibbous 84% 10.97 days old

Taken July 13th. This is one afocal shot through a 40mm EP.

Big Jupiter

This was taken a couple of nights ago. With good seeing conditions and very clear skies, I push up the magnifcation to 100x per inch. The final image consisted of 750 frames stacked in Registax4 and some touch up in PSE 2.0

Jupiter at 28º

I decided to take some web cam images of our Jovian neighbor last night. Even though the high clouds were thick, I managed to capture the GRS and what I think is the Red Spot Jr. Seeing was pretty good, but a 3-4/5 at best. This image consist of 850 frames stacked, with some PSE 2.0 touch ups.

Ring Nebula

Here is my first attemp of M57 in two years. Although it did not turn out like I hoped... This image is 40 out of 98 15 sec. out of focus afocal exposures taken through a 40mm ep. After the stacking process, I cleaned up the camera noise with Neat Image to complete the final image.