http://www.dougellison.com/dougstuff/phantom_interview.mp3 - 6 meg

That went quite well - Simon seemed interested in what I was talking about - and the forum got a nice plug!

Better late than never - I'll be on Phantom radio ( www.phantom.ie ) at about 4.20pm today.

Ah yes, the worlds largest ribbed...er...structure.

Looks like it's time to start with the Phil-O-Stretch on the Horizon with an observation like that

New images from both vehicles up on Exp, now.

Does anyone know how to load other CTX images / HiRISE images into the landscape—the ones where you see the little orange (or red) square, but clicking on it gives you only the footprint, not the image?

And, is it possible to keep HiRISE images as the top “layer” so they’re not covered up by lower-resolution CTX images?

I was flying home from Dublin, and wondered if I could put together noodle-like observations by pulling frames out of movies. My camera will do 1280 x 720 movies - so in portrait, I recorded out the window for a bit. It works better pointing 'down' rather than 'out' - and some worked better than others - but in some ways this is analogous to push-frame imaging a bit like MARCI or THEMIS.

Full images here - http://is.gd/j2uv - attached, a downsampled version of probably the best one.

Hoping for some clear skies on my US trip in March to do this for longer-noodles, pointing straight down, zoomed in a little.

Doug

And make sure the skin, bottom left of the forum, says IP.Board Pro

Tried to take some push-frame imaging from the flight home, 1280 x 720 @ 15fps.. I'll see how it works

Done - and video documented on the banks of the Liffey after a great lecture ( big, friendly crowd and great AV facilities, in a lecture theatre previous used by Schrodinger (of cat fame). ) and great food with Helvick.

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Damn - we went to the other end of the runway, so not past the normal Cargo end to see if anything cool was there. And there was a lot of Fog. I don't like flights when the first thing you see of the destination is the runway threshold.

They tend to use it to transport crazy stuff - like power station turbines, trains, big huge stuff. I think when Helen and I saw it at East Midlands Airport ( here - http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=5...mp;t=h&z=17 ) it was doing humanitarian work. Nothing beats 250,000kg of aid in one hit. I saw a documentary about taking it from a decommissioned state in Russia, and returning it to flight, to turn a profit as a heavy lift cargo carrier. It's so popular, they're finishing the second one to flight status in 2010. I know the Thrust SSC team used a 125 to shift EVERYTHING they needed for their record attempt in Black Rock, back in 1997 (and another two trips to Jordan as well).

I don't think it's carried anything overhead since Buran - just biblical internal cargo. Bigger than an A380 I just learnt. Wow.

The departures lounge of East Midlands Airport really is rather dull. But hey - I just got to see an Antonov 125 land, and fingers crossed the 225 (Buran's old carrier aircraft ) is at the end of the apron as it was the last time I flew from here.

Being slightly serious for 5 seconds - Helen has been a part of the UMSF story as well. Lesser women would have not put up with the time it takes for me to look after UMSF, go and do talks and so on. I'm very lucky that she not only tolerates it, but comes with me to many of the talks and things that I do and supports me doing it all.

Contrary to the website, I will not be on the radio today - because I don't actually get to Dublin till 2 hrs after the show ends

I second THAT comment.

And add that I'm sorry that I couldn't get the beautiful birthday-banner uploaded in time that Astro0 made for me - I'm travelling today - hopefully airport-waiting time and WiFi will sort that out
(edit - or over breakfast )

Doug

I need it. Just got a new Macbook myself - 2.4ghz, 4gb Ram, 500gb HDD

Only very very briefly, there wont be time for a big meet up I'm afraid - but one of the things I'll be doing is a talk that the public will be able to come to - at quite a nice venue. More details when the details are confirmed. Early Evening, Tue March 17th

rgr that. Problem is - I've got 40 minutes to give my talk. Last night I did the same talk. 90 minutes. Anyone got an axe?

As I said on Twitter - A Mississippi Steam Boat captain just called. He wants his paddle wheels back.

Not You Tube - Astronomy Ireland generate a few quid by selling talks on DVD.

And I'll be using one of those fancy metal bird things, out of East Midlands Airport. Hopefully. If the snow doesn't ruin EVERYTHING.

http://astronomy.ie/lecture200902.html

It would be great to see any of you who can make it.

Funny how the word 'drop' would mean delay or cancellation for any other mission. For this one - it's an accurate vowel for what happened.