[AZ-Observing] Re: Rotating Globe of Jupiter Images
- From: Dan Heim <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:41:13 -0700
Damn that rotating globe is pretty! And this with freeware! Just
amazing. I've done similar animations and mapping surfaces to spheres in
LightWave. Don't even ask what I had to pay for that app.
Dan Heim
On 1/28/2012 4:27 PM, Tom Polakis wrote:
> I have been fortunate to be out with my little 10-inch scope and Webcam on
> five nights with very good seeing and Jupiter high in the sky. Even though I
> have spotty coverage of Jupiter's range of longitudes, I put together a
> cylindrical projection map of Jupiter from the five images.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/polakis/image/141175506
>
>
> The tool for producing the projections and stitching them together is the
> amazing freeware WinJUPUS. Since the time range of the images is 2 1/2
> months and Jupiter's features move, we get two of some of them near the
> seams. The next thing to do is wrap these images around a globe and create
> an animated GIF of it rotating, which WinJUPOS also does well.
>
> The rotating globe is this 5 Mb animated GIF. Hopefully I can grab a few
> more images in the next month or two, which will go a long way toward
> eliminating those seams.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/polakis/image/141175453
>
> Tom
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