Exquisite Saturn Images |
Exquisite Saturn Images |
Jul 12 2006, 09:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
There are some gorgeous crescent saturn images coming down in the raws at the moment.
You can really see how oblate saturn is. |
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Jul 12 2006, 03:12 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yep...some lucky tourists will pay the big bucks to see that in person around the year 2300 or so...
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Jul 12 2006, 06:32 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 11-July 06 From: Springville, UT Member No.: 965 |
The oblation is what struck me, too.
What are we seeing in the images that alternate with with crescent shots? I assume it's the cloud tops, and the black band at the bottom is the shadow of the rings or the rings themselves. -------------------- |
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Jul 12 2006, 06:39 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 11-July 06 From: Springville, UT Member No.: 965 |
Yep...some lucky tourists will pay the big bucks to see that in person around the year 2300 or so... Definitely. Meanwhile, we'll have to be grateful for whoever at JPL takes the trouble to post the feeds. -------------------- |
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Jul 12 2006, 07:00 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
Yes, whoever does that is an unsung hero.
Notice the tiny black dot in the upper left of the crescent? In a similar image released last week Ciclops such a dot was identified as Epimetheus. I wonder if that's what it is here or perhaps another satellite? |
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Jul 12 2006, 09:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
What is that little white dot at the bottom of the image?
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Jul 13 2006, 06:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Notice the tiny black dot in the upper left of the crescent? If you turn the brightness up you can see that it's actually the rings intersecting the disc, not a moon. EDIT: A shot that does show a moon, Titan alonside Saturn's right limb. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=79245 The bottom of the image was unfortunately clipped off on the spacecraft during readout. -------------------- |
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Jul 24 2006, 08:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
There are some gorgeous crescent saturn images coming down in the raws at the moment. You can really see how oblate saturn is. Exquisite image. It's interesting though how much 'noise' there is in the image, it appears they have barely 50% of the frame to work with...see attached image of W00016082 with the gamma correction turned way up. Do they use a mask of some sort to clean the lens smears and such? -------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Jul 24 2006, 08:06 PM
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Jul 27 2006, 08:36 AM
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Jul 27 2006, 09:26 AM
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Jul 27 2006, 09:46 AM
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Jul 27 2006, 09:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
That would be a blue image on the left and a methane band ( I think ) filter on the right. I did try the methane band images, but they have been 2x2 downsampled
Doug |
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Jul 27 2006, 09:58 AM
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Jul 27 2006, 10:06 AM
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