Jupiter rotation animation

Here's an animated GIF file that is a 45-frame animation of the results of stacking 45 AVI files using Registax 3. Each stack was the best roughly 450 of 600 frames captured at 5 frames per second. The individual sets were taken between 11:42 p.m. May 11 and 3:40 a.m. May 12, 2006 using a ToUCam webcam and a Stellarvue SV152 apochromat (6" high-quality refractor telescope), with a 4X Televue Powermate to enlarge the image optically. These have not been color-balanced yet. Notice there are times when the image gets fuzzy: these occur first when Jupiter rose over the peak of the roof of my house and second when it passes above a large live oak tree next to my driveway. The unsteadiness of the air causes this fuzzines. The Great Red Spot appears near the end of the sequence. Just "ahead" of it along the dark Souther Equatorial Belt is a "wake" of dark waves from a smaller spot sliding along the northern edge of the belt.

TO WATCH THE ANIMATION: click All Sizes above the image and select Original if it does not already appear selected. Time-wise, the individual frames are between 5 and 6 minutes apart.

Scope and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).