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Posted by: Exploitcorporations Feb 27 2006, 06:54 PM

I used to have a poster of the Voyager 1 Saturn montage on my wall when I was a kid. It seems like it's time for a replacement:

This is comprised of the work of several forum members. Enceladus and Phoebe-volcanopele(NASA/JPL),
Hyperion-Malmer, Rhea and Tethys-ugordan, Mimas-Ian R, Dione and Iapetus-me(both pseudocolor), Saturn, Titan, Epimetheus, Telesto, and Pandora-NASA/JPL.

Posted by: Bob Shaw Feb 27 2006, 06:59 PM

I know the poster - it was actually pretty terrible, unlike this one!

The only improvements I could suggest would be an outline key to each object (with perhaps name, diameter, and similar) and that the credits should be somewhere on the image.

Can't wait for you to become *really* addicted to Mars, too...

Bob Shaw

Posted by: RNeuhaus Feb 27 2006, 07:12 PM

A very magic post. Lots of moon! what interesting is the Saturn with its very captitative attraction of moons.

Rodolfo

Posted by: volcanopele Feb 27 2006, 07:39 PM

A couple of suggestions:

* Most of these images have north approximately up except for Dione, so perhaps that could be rotated 180.
* There are a few more rocks you could add to Telesto, Epimetheus, and Pandora. Decently resolved views of Helene (see the Rev21 thread), Calypso, Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, and Janus, are available.

Posted by: dilo Feb 27 2006, 09:06 PM

Beautiful collage! I suggest also to change some moons positions (or image) in order to have more coherent illumination... try to put Mimas on extreme right and Thetys on the left, for example.

Sometime ago I did this montage, now I have the right place to post it!

Edit: reduced Tethys apparent siza...

Posted by: tedstryk Feb 27 2006, 09:17 PM

I don't think the old one was very bad, considering that, being 1981, it was probaby made with paper cutouts and paste. But this one is great!

Posted by: paxdan Mar 2 2006, 09:45 AM

love the fantasy montages, i used to have a voyager one on my wall too, however, who needs fantasy when you have the http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08124.

I had a look at the raws but couldn't see this one, i don't suppose it was taken in more than one filter as i would love to see a colour version.

edit: so i found the original in thehttp://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=61153and there is no chance of colour.

Posted by: ugordan Mar 2 2006, 09:54 AM

That one is around one month old already (basically, almost every POTD release CICLOPS does is using month-old data) and there's only this one, clear filter image.

Regarding the old Voyager collage, I actually thought it was way cool, even if it was made with paper cutouts and glue.

BTW, Exploitcorporations, I'm honored two of my composites made their way into your montage
Great work, too!

Posted by: BruceMoomaw Mar 2 2006, 02:22 PM

Lovely piece of work. The Planetary Society should hire you. (By the way, their Sunday night public talk on Europa at ARC drew a very hefty and enthusiastic crowd, and they were signing up a lot of new members at it.)

Posted by: PhilCo126 Mar 2 2006, 06:11 PM

Great idea and superb work
Reminds me of the late 1980s when I received those NASA-JPL lithos showing the Voyager - Saturn images ... amazing items for a teenager

We're so lucky to live in this exciting era of unmanned spaceflight exploits

Posted by: lyford Mar 2 2006, 08:24 PM

Gorgeous! how did I miss this thread until today?!?!?