From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: September 11, 2012 9:19:38 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Jupiter impact w/ AstroIIDC
Hi George;
On 11-Sep-12, at 9:06 AM, george hall wrote:
Milton,
Thanks, Here is a Flickr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568/in/photostream
Thanks.. Amazing movie. That looks a lot brighter than Mag 6 (maybe they meant Mag -6) that S&T and indicated:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/Another-Flash-on-Jupiter-169263686.html
I attempted to export the files to FITS, but could not get that to work. ASTRO IIDC crashed each time (the video size was over 2000 frames). I did export the data to TIF format and the guys from NASA seemed happy with that.
Tiff will lose the frame rate information though. And AVI are not frame accurate when coming from Apple. AVI can't do variable frame rates either. I'm not sure if that was addressed in WMV or not.
Unfortunately the camera was saturated during much of the impact, so they could not get an accurate light curve.
Did you keep the crash logs? I never had it crash in my testing - even with 5000 frame 16 bit color movies exported. I'd be interested in seeing where that happened so I can fix it before the final 409.00 release.
Thanks for sharing..
Milton Aupperle
Thanks for the offer to help. This event has overwhelmed my meager processing skills.
George
On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:
Hi George;
Excellent work. Congratulations on the discovery.
The video link will not work (it's a temporary Yahoo reference link),
but the screen shot looks very intriguing. For the windows community -
especially NASA, you can export the movie frames to FITS files in
Astro IIDC 4.09.00 and the OBS Date time field will be down to 0.001
seconds level for timing purposes.
If you need help with the processing or other data extraction - for
example brightness estimates assuming we have a visible moon - let me
know.
TTYL..
Milton Aupperle
On 11-Sep-12, at 7:02 AM, george hall wrote:
Here is a link to a short video of the event that I posted over on
the Jupiter_ALPO forum. Sorry for the cross post.
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/wCdPUFYv_d6Mlyf3I47tCT_zFEkRaHIIVzqNWYZQri90MFnsAxyH2fAt6RhC0D_l6FN-LH_GSgKwYqXvjrBjaBYVSyYdCvkg8H_7ToxktCUUO3EcF30/Jupiter%20Impact%2009-10-2012/Jupiter%20Impact%20Video.m4v
Here is a link to my web site where I posted the original screen
capture. It had almost 50K hits over night!!
http://georgeastro.weebly.com/jupiter.html
George
On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:
Fantastic… I didn't realize it was a Mac user catch.
thanks for posting.
Alan
On Sep 11, 2012, at 1:21 AM, cosmicrock2001 wrote:
I hope everyone has seen the news/ video on www.spaceweather.com
that apparently a new impact on Jupiter was caught by a Texas
amateur who was using a Flea 3 and AstroIIDC.
Ron