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Jupiter

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This is a time-lapse video of Jupiter that I made with a friend back in March 2004, he had the camera and I had the big telescope.

The video shows about 3 hours of Jupiter’s rotation including the Great red spot and the two moons IO and Europa.

There are 18 frames taken about ten minutes apart, each frame was taken with an astronomical CCD camera and stacked together in live software to produce an image with a greater signal to noise ratio (clearer picture) so each frame is itself a combination of between 60 and 100 one second exposures.

You can see from the various frames that the viewing conditions were quite variable, sometimes we got really clear shots with good detail and sometimes we got a fuzzy ball.

Equipment used.

Meade LX-10 10” SCT at f10 (2,500mm lens equivalent)
Meade LPI CCD Camera
Autostar tracking and stacking software.

Uploaded on Apr 21, 2008

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Aurora 360

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40 Minutes Time lapse video of an Aurora Substorm taken through a fisheye lens during high levels of Aurora activity in February 2005 from Kiruna in Sweden.

Taken with a Nikon 4500 with fish eye adapter.

Each exposure was 20 seconds at ISO 400

Uploaded on Apr 17, 2008

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Polar Portrait

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Self Portrait taken at the North Pole in April 2005, the temperature was -36°C (-33°F)

I had just walked the last 500 meters to the North Pole after being set down in an MI8 cargo helicopter as part of a Russian weather expedition, 500 meters short of the pole was good enough for them but I wanted to go right to the pole and my GPS told me it was only 500 metres away which is farther than you think when you are walking on polar ice.

When I reached the pole I took this photo and opened a small bottle of rare whisky (the same age as me) that I had taken for the occasion, the whisky was still liquid but after a few sips I decided to add some polar ice as this was my only chance to do so. Unfortunately the ice was more like compressed snow so the block just absorbed the whisky leaving me with an alcoholic slushy, still very nice though.

When I returned to the group I was informed that the reason they had not landed at the true pole was that the ice looked a bit too thin for the helicopter, fortunately it was thick enough for me.

Uploaded on Jan 8, 2008 | Map

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Black & White Autumn

Uploaded on Nov 3, 2007 | Map

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