my humble Comet Lulin animation

[troypiggo]

Thought I'd give this a go. Toss of a coin. Do I guide on the stars and try to get the comet zooming past, or guide on the comet and let the stars whoosh by. I chose the latter. You'll see the comet dim towards the end. Dew started forming on the lens and that was pretty much the end of my night.

Click the image below for about 1.6MB animated gif. 20x3min shots.

http://piggo.com/~troy/photos/2009/2009_02_28/lulin.jpg (http://piggo.com/~troy/photos/2009/2009_02_28/lulin.gif)

[A.S.I.G.N. Observatory]

Troy, for a beginner, you are and expert!

Baz.

[troypiggo]

Thanks Baz! I had a ball on the weekend. Lived up to expectations. :)

[Jeff]

I like it, you got a lot of the tail in there too.

[Scoobs]

Very impressive

[Naturalist]

In regards to your other post AWESOME!

I like how you let the stars go by and focused on the comet and, the fading because of dew formation, that is awesome as well for when viewing the animation it appears as though the comet is zooming by so quickly that it fades from sight! (obviously untrue)

Excellent!

[golfsmith]

Great job.

[troypiggo]

Thanks again guys. :)

[Celestron]

Very cool and great shot ! What do you use to make the animations with ??

[troypiggo]

Think I did it the hard way :( All in Gimp. I hand edited all 20 frames, then added them all in as different layers and saved as animated gif. At full resolution the filesize is HUGE. Even at 500px wide it was 4MB or something.