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I took over 8 million images of Jupiter in one night to capture it's full rotation (and an Io transit)
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I took over 8 million images of Jupiter in one night to capture it’s full rotation (and an Io transit)


I took over 8 million images of Jupiter in one night to capture it’s full rotation (and an Io transit)



by VVJ21

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  1. VVJ21 on

    This week I managed to capture a full rotation of Jupiter (just under 10hrs) in a single night. Including a transit of one of Jupiter’s moons – Io.

    In total I took 631 one minute videos of Jupiter at around 218fps, for a total of over 8 million images in one night, totalling 1.67TB of data.

    I then took 468 of those which covered a full rotation and stacked each one, selecting the best 1500 frames from each. Wavelets in registax, and then I did some final touchup.

    The 468 frames are what make up this final timelapse.

    Telescope: Celestron C8 XLT
    Camera: ZWO ASI-183MC Pro
    Mount: Sky-Watcher EQM-35 Pro

  3. Datau03 on

    How much work was it to process this insanely huge amount of data?? Incredibly impressive and awesome result!