Jupiter 2020 Sep 5 (Kevin Parker)

Jupiter 2020 Sep 5

Jupiter time lapse from September 5. The video starts off with Moon Ganymede at the top left, and Io in the middle of the planet (Hard to see at first, but watch it a few times). As the planet rotates, Io creates a shadow transit that follows it across. At the same time, Ganymede crosses the planet's surface, but the angles are not right at this time to make a shadow transit. Toward the end of the video, Callisto can be seen moving from right to left. As it is about to pass behind Jupiter, the video ends. I would have gone longer, but clouds and seeing. Plus I was cold out there.

There is a little jitter in the middle where I had to do a meridian flip. Seeing was good to average (with occasional cloud) during the sequence.

Each frame of this 57 frame sequence was a stack of 3 minute AVI's, with 30 second gaps between.

Taken with a deforked Meade LX90 ACF 8" F10 SCT at a bit longer than prime focus with an Svbony SV305 one shot colour camera, on an NEQ6 with belt and zero backlash upgrades. Captured in sharpcap, gain was set to 2.5, 42ms exposure, stacked in AS!3, levels and unsharp mask in Photoshop and the GIF made with PIPP.

Original
Final
B

B

Description: Jupiter time lapse from September 5. The video starts off with Moon Ganymede at the top left, and Io in the middle of the planet (Hard to see at first, but watch it a few times). As the planet rotates, Io creates a shadow transit that follows it across. At the same time, Ganymede crosses the planet's surface, but the angles are not right at this time to make a shadow transit. Toward the end of the video, Callisto can be seen moving from right to left. As it is about to pass behind Jupiter, the video ends. I would have gone longer, but clouds and seeing. Plus I was cold out there. :P There is a little jitter in the middle where I had to do a meridian flip. Seeing was good to average (with occasional cloud) during the sequence.

Each frame of this 57 frame sequence was a stack of 3 minute AVI's, with 30 second gaps between.

Taken with a deforked Meade LX90 ACF 8" F10 SCT at a bit longer than prime focus with an Svbony SV305 one shot colour camera, on an NEQ6 with belt and zero backlash upgrades. Captured in sharpcap, gain was set to 2.5, 42ms exposure, stacked in AS!3, levels and unsharp mask in Photoshop and the GIF made with PIPP.

Uploaded: ...

	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	n/a
Started	n/a
Astrometry.net job	n/a
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):