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Something's up at Jupiter
remcook
post May 11 2007, 03:05 PM
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Lots of activity recently at the North Equatorial Belt apparently, only after NH passed. Would be interesting to see what happens. Stay tuned.

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post May 11 2007, 03:47 PM
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It's incredible how amateur planetary photography has evolved in a couple of decades.

Compare the May 5th photo to this WFPC-1 image from 1991. The image is obviously poorly processed and scanned from a photo, but still...


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post May 11 2007, 04:12 PM
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Amazing... you can even make out surface details on Ganymede in the May 5th image.
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post May 11 2007, 06:16 PM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ May 11 2007, 04:12 PM) *
Amazing... you can even make out surface details on Ganymede in the May 5th image.

May, 4 indeed. The most amazing picture quality is from the day before, however. I tried also to process it in order to obtain further details, but results were poor, demontrating that image processing is already optimized...


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post May 11 2007, 08:34 PM
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QUOTE (Jyril @ May 11 2007, 03:47 PM) *
It's incredible how amateur planetary photography has evolved in a couple of decades.

Compare the May 5th photo to this WFPC-1 image from 1991. The image is obviously poorly processed and scanned from a photo, but still...


It is neither. It was overexposed, meaning that the center of the disk washed out. This image, a small portion of the WFPC field of view, is enlarged far beyond what it can sustain, but it isn't poorly processed besides that - it is just very noisy, because of processing to compensate for HST's bad optics.


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post May 11 2007, 10:41 PM
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Was it really that bad? The pre-service mission images, which are not many, are truly terrible. I can imagine the collective sigh of relief when the first images from the refurbished Hubble were received.

QUOTE (remcook @ May 11 2007, 06:05 PM) *
Lots of activity recently at the North Equatorial Belt apparently, only after NH passed. Would be interesting to see what happens. Stay tuned.


I wonder if the South Equatorial Belt is about to disappear again, as it is so pale now.


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QUOTE (Jyril @ May 11 2007, 10:41 PM) *
Was it really that bad? The pre-service mission images, which are not many, are truly terrible. I can imagine the collective sigh of relief when the first images from the refurbished Hubble were received.
I wonder if the South Equatorial Belt is about to disappear again, as it is so pale now.


The overexposure issue was due to the fact that they hadn't gotten used to using the Hubble yet. They took images later on and got the exposure times right.


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post Jun 10 2007, 06:05 PM
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The latest Jupiter images by Go are magnificent--looks like the SEB is full-fade mode for the first time in a decade and a half. Just our luck that NH just missed it...(sigh).


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