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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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.

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.

Early Morning Jupiter & Luna

I finally had the opportunity to image Jupiter with the GRS on the earth side of the planet and I must say, it was one of my most difficult images to capture! Once this giant gas ball cleared our trees, as usual, things went down hill in a hurry... I'm not saying I regret the session, especially after all the terrible weather we've been having for over a month! I'm just saying things could have been better. To make a long story short, these images were captured through thick high clouds, 2/5 seeing and using my wife's hair dryer to keep the dew from totally soaking the lens. I'm talking 97% humidity, dew point of 66 and the air temp of 65 deg. Yup! it was starting to fog like nobody's business! I was was wore out after 56 2-3 minute captures on both the planet and on the moon. With that being said, here is the best I could muster up 3AM Sunday morning...

Jupiter Today

This is the best 850 out of 1200 web cam frames at 10 fps stacked with Registax4. Captured this morning around 5AM with average seeing, extremely heavy near freezing dew on the lens and very clear skies.

Gas Giants

These were taken around 4 hours apart last weekend. Seeing was below average on both occasions and with high clouds.

Jupiter...Spotless

After two weeks, I finally was able to get the Mak under clear skies. I brought the scope out last night, did some tweaking with the focus, got it polar aligned and left it out for this morning. It was 5:22AM when the planet had finally cleared the trees. Unfortunately the spot was not in view at this time, may be in a week or so it will be possible to capture it, darn trees..!

This image is 1000 frames stacked, seeing was good, but not great and it was crystal clear with heavy freezing dew. I resized it along with some PS touch up.

Jupiter & Saturn 2007

I finally installed some stacking software for my webcam, so I've been playing with some of last years video images. I plan on geting some current images of the ringed planet this weekend...if the weather permits.