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[Peter R]

Hi all,

I have just finished a project of animating the 2 huge storms that erupted on Jupiter last autumn and winter and that are still active.

The animation stretches over a period of almost 100 days and has taken all my free time for the past 7 months. It is made entirely from real amateur still images.

Yesterday I was finally able to upload it on YouTube. Initially I had put all the explanations as captions in the video but it was so distracting that I decided to remove them and put the description bellow the video.

I hope you will enjoy it.

 

Link: https://www.youtube....h?v=x1W_Ux_jgaE

 

/*Peter Rosén

 

President of the Planetary Section at SAAF - Sweden

 

 

[auroraTDunn]

That was absolutely stunningly magnificent! 

What truly made it, for me, was the multiple different projections used to show the storms and their progression

[R Botero]

Superb Peter

 

Roberto

[KMH]

A remarkable achievement!

 

Kevin

[Winteria]

Incredibly smooth and well put-together in general. I'd say its worth the 7 months. Great work Peter.

[CeeKay]

Excellent work, Peter!

[Don07tncav]

Fantastic work! Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Kiwi Paul]

Yes, fantastic work. Well done. These animations are so instructive and help to show how eddies/cloud swirls are triggered - the area downstream of the GRS being the most obvious case.

Cheers Paul

[Peter R]

Thank you for all your appreciation

Yes, fantastic work. Well done. These animations are so instructive and help to show how eddies/cloud swirls are triggered - the area downstream of the GRS being the most obvious case.

Cheers Paul

When you spend months working on a project like this one, you start to notice so many big and small connections between the weather systems that most of the time go unnoticed on still images. They are plainly visible but you simply cannot see the correlation.

For example, there is an faint orangish tint around the GRS at the start of the period that then slowly fades away. It's subtle but real.

I think it is a leaking from the GRS as you can sometimes observe small vent like structures opening and closing on the rim of the GRS. I observed a similar but stronger such event in my previous animation project from 2018.

I often think that Leonardo da Vinci, were he alive today, and who among  other topics observed how vortices behave around obstructions in a water flow, would most certainly have been a planetary observer specializing in the study of Jupiter 

 

/*Peter R

[Lacaille]

Fascinating work - a result of dedication and high skill.

I often think that Leonardo da Vinci, were he alive today, and who among other topics observed how vortices behave around obstructions in a water flow, would most certainly have been a planetary observer specializing in the study of Jupiter

/*Peter R

You may be right about Leonardo, though it would have been problematic, as all his images would have been mirror-reversed!

Mark

[Borodog]

Very cool.

[Opticsjunkie]

That is just one of the most incredible time lapse movies I have ever seen! Absolutely beautiful and at the same time very educational as well. Congratulations on producing such a masterpiece! 

 

CS

-Jeroen

[Peter R]

More than once the project was put on a halt and I considered giving up. It is often in those moments that new approaches and ideas unexpectedly emerge, especially during my dog walks in the forest. That is also part of the process and eventually some of them work and will take the project forward and ultimately to the finish line.

 

 Thank you all for your rave reviews, it is so heart-warming.

 

/*Peter R

Edited by Peter R, 03 July 2025 - 02:52 AM.

[Peter R]

I have been asked by several amateur astronomers if it would be possible to reduce the speed to easier see all the details flowing by.

It is not evident but I have now slowed down all the sequences so they are all 24 seconds long compared to 12 previously.

That corresponds to the more than 100 Earth-days or 250 revolutions of Jupiter which is still a speed up of 360,000 times compared to the real flow!

I have also reduced the number of crossfades between the sequences.

The new video is here: https://www.youtube....h?v=CvbVDzdhF6E .

 

/*Peter R