Thanks to all for great coverage, especially to Emily!
This is a rough crossed-eye stereogram from last two frames of Astro0 animation:

Stupid journalists. Am I the only one who really wants to know if the last images the NAC took were better than the best WAC images?

Doug...

you are right... software parameters for NAC were conservative. As they should be to preserve the instrument for it's main goal... the comet.

Look forward to Emily adding Steins...

My morning has just started and gotta go....

Craig

OK, I'm going back to bed now.

If I may make a little request...it would be wonderful if when I woke up I found a version of one of these images at 20 m per pixel I want to add it to my comparative graphic but my brain is too tired for me to scale it properly right now!

Emily

The press release states the last NAC frames will have a resolution comparable to WAC c/a imagery. FWIW, the images so far look magnified 2x to me.

"The OSIRIS imaging system's Wide Angle Camera (WAC) worked perfectly through the fly-by.

The OSIRIS team expects that the images that they will retrieve from the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) will be of comparable resolution. This will add to the detailed colour information and hence to knowledge of the surface composition."

From the ESA page with the conference images, which just came up.

Well, that went pretty well, I think. Definitely an improvement by ESA on how they handle these things, although the build-up to the big reveal of the pics was a bit drawn-out, I have to be honest. ( Could have been summed up by: "This was a very hard thing to do, what with turning and twisting the probe around and everything, but we have some really clever and dedicated people here and hey, they did it! Now, here are the pictures you all want to see..." )

Seriously tho, this has to be a good sign, a much more open way of doing things. ESA is now blogging events and encounters (well done Daniel Scuka), the VMC is going to really take off I think (well done Tom!), and the media conference - although very heavy on the science in the first... 40 minutes... - was less stuffy than I expected. Now, if we can just get ESA to start using raw pages like NASA does, and post images to them quickly - although as quickly as the MER and Phoenix teams do it is too much to ask for yet, I think - then that would be a fantastic step forward.

Look... down there at the end of the tunnel.... a light...

OK, somebody has to do it and it might as well be me.
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Shoot me if you like Doug

All right, who am I kidding? I'd just be lying awake imagining relative sizes of asteroids

I'll get to work on that montage.

--Emily

... and Emily has an AVI video with what looks like the original pixel scale in her blog entry. Real shame about NAC images. My favorite image is the very first one in the video, it really looks diamond-like.

Obviously, Steins is a fragment of the exploded Planet Krypton...

New montage is up.

OK, now I'm really going to try to get some sleep.

--Emily

Good job, Emily!

Seeing as ESA did such a good job with this, might be nice if UMSF members went on to the Rosetta blog and left a message, you know, show them how much interest there is out here..?

Just did that; thanks for the idea

It was actually AstroO's idea originally, I just agreed with him. The more UMSF members leave supportive messages, the better I think.