JunoCam Citizen Science

My first attempt at Citizen Science on display in the dome!

A few weeks ago, I watched this video, produced by the Griffith Observatory a year ago:

As in the demonstration video I watched, I used Gimp. Of course I could have used Krita, but Gimp is my go-to since I’m so familiar with it.

First I downloaded set of images from 2021-07-21 Perijove 35:

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=11074

I opened the three color PNGs as layers and colorized them accordingly.

Then I played around with the individual layers’ brightness and contrast settings, then combined using Screen as the blend mode.

After I got the colors close to how I liked them, I used the G’Mic Tone Sharpening to bring out the detail.  (https://gmic.eu/index.html)

Before tone sharpening
After tone sharpening

I spent very little time on it, about 25 minutes total. I’m pleased with it and look forward to showing others how to make their own.

By Waylena

Planetarium professional since 1992. User of Free and Open Source Software since 2001.

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