Jupiter 20241103 UTC and Ganymede shadow transit
One of the best events of this apparition, a shadow transit of Ganymede from 20241103 02:39 UTC ending at 04:35, or 126 minutes. I completed 34 imaging runs of 180 seconds each with a 30 second delay between each to let the computer finish the download of the last image
The single image below is from the middle of the event, and Jupiter has risen another 15 degrees since the start. Ganymede has made an appearance on the lower left, moving left to right. No GRS.
So .. how much time…
about 3 hours setup to teardown time
about 6 hours of autostakkert, 340GB across 34 files. (batch) Best 5% of 15K frames of 3ms each
about 30 minutes of registax doing wavelet processing one by one
about 2 hours of GIMP processing, 34 files one by one. about 5 minutes for annotation (batch) with imagemagick
GIMP can do batch-macro-scripting but that is another learning curve. Most of the time I do not have 34 files to process.. only 5 to 10 or so. Much better suited to manualy processing.
no dark frames… havent figured that part out yet.