Jupiter, Europa and Io
I filmed the giant Jupiter a whole night as its Great Red Spot entered and left view. I also filmed Io exiting from behind Jupiter then move away and Europa moving towards the planet. And put all data together to show it as a time lapse movie.
Setup and metadata
I used my known setup: the 150/750 newton scope on the motorized EQ3 mount, a 2x barlow + extension tube (another barlow tube with the lens removed) + Scopium webcam (640×480, 8 bits RGB). I disassambled and adjusted the barlow+extensino tube+webcam assembly two times during the night to get the most out of the setup in terms of a great disk photo, knowing when putting all the frames together compensating for the rotation, xy offset and size will be only a small fraction of my problems.
To be noted that the observation started with Jupiter relatively low, near the horizon (about 30 degrees, in a city) and that the seeing varied substantially during the session, peaking at an almost perfect seeing, one I’ve never seen before from within this city.
I took the first video on November 3rd, 2014 at 0:53 UTC and the last one at 4:36 UTC. Location: Kolozsvár city, Romania, EU.
The setup (this was taken on October 10, 2014)
Laptop with at least 100 GiB free space (this was taken on October 10, 2014)
The screen (this was taken on October 10, 2014)
