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 Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
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I heard about this 24 hours ago, and couldn't believe it - this is EXACTLY what has been missing from ESA. MASSIVE kudos to the ESOC MEX flight ops team for doing it
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/VMC/index.html The last time I wrote a post and hit 'submit' at UMSF with a smile this big on my face, was when Oppy successfully got out of Purgatory. |
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Aug 22 2008, 04:42 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 20-January 07 From: Milano, ITALY Member No.: 1633 |
Does the Picasa logo on VMC images imply that they are hosted at the popular photo sharing site? If so, double kudos to ESA.
Paolo Amoroso -------------------- Avventure Planetarie - Blog sulla comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica
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Aug 22 2008, 06:00 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I've got a basic app going, it performs a rudimentary interpolation (if someone knows of a good de-Bayer algorithm, I'm open for suggestions) of the RGB data. When I clean it up a bit and sort out a command line interface I'll release it. Any requests in the meantime?
 In the meantime, two gif animations: A crescent (2.3 MB) and a partially overexposed north->south flyover (3 MB). Looks like the camera could benefit from a flatfield frame, if one were to be made. For some reason the RAW frames appear to be truncated in the ZIP archives, the last frame the most. -------------------- |
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Aug 22 2008, 08:31 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Aug 22 2008, 07:00 PM)  When I clean it up a bit and sort out a command line interface I'll release it. Well that took AGES!  I'm happy to er.... 'beta test' it Doug |
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Aug 22 2008, 09:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
To be honest, coding that particular bit was easy. I find providing a command line interface is more tedious and boring work. I'd still like to implement a better interpolation technique, something similiar to what digital cameras do.
Anyway, a couple of new takeouts, these have saturation kicked up. I don't know why the original images look so desaturated.
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djellison MEX VMC - Back on, and online! Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
djellison FWIW - I've attempted to debayer a tiny piece ... Aug 22 2008, 02:57 PM djellison I THINK I got a bit cleverer in making selections ... Aug 22 2008, 03:20 PM
ugordan Wow, great work, Doug. My method of making a Bayer... Aug 22 2008, 03:25 PM Tman QUOTE (ugordan @ Aug 22 2008, 05:25 PM) H... Aug 22 2008, 03:46 PM Stu ESA often get a hard time here for what they do - ... Aug 22 2008, 03:23 PM PDP8E I always though that the Lunar Prospector team was... Aug 22 2008, 03:24 PM djellison QUOTE (PDP8E @ Aug 22 2008, 04:24 PM) I a... Aug 22 2008, 03:32 PM djellison Oh boy oh boy
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multi... Aug 22 2008, 04:06 PM ugordan I'm gonna give it a go at writing an app for a... Aug 22 2008, 04:10 PM Juramike Even better, it looks like they'd like submiss... Aug 22 2008, 04:37 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Juramike @ Aug 22 2008, 04:37 PM) ... Aug 22 2008, 06:45 PM ugordan Nice catch, Tman! Looks like clouds to me, rot... Aug 22 2008, 07:06 PM slinted Kudos to the ESA and MEX teams! This is an ex... Aug 22 2008, 11:44 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Aug 22 2008, 06:42... Aug 22 2008, 06:33 PM Tman Very nice Gordan!
What could that illuminated... Aug 22 2008, 06:27 PM Paolo Amoroso Are you able to use the Celestia scripts? I downlo... Aug 22 2008, 06:36 PM Astro0 QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Aug 23 2008, 04:36... Aug 23 2008, 03:57 AM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Astro0 @ Aug 23 2008, 05:57 AM) I ... Aug 23 2008, 12:27 PM ugordan A dodgy first version of the tool:
It takes an in... Aug 23 2008, 02:26 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Aug 23 2008, 02:27... Aug 23 2008, 02:34 PM Astro0 Paolo, see if you can download Celestia 1.5.0. It ... Aug 23 2008, 11:32 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Astro0 @ Aug 24 2008, 01:32 AM) Pa... Aug 24 2008, 02:35 PM Stu Hmmm... why do the words "Kids", "n... Aug 22 2008, 09:45 PM djellison I was thinking 'pig' and err...'poo... Aug 22 2008, 10:00 PM jekbradbury For those who would rather not manually run each o... Aug 24 2008, 02:28 AM Tman The VMC public gallery has opened http://www.esa.i... Aug 26 2008, 07:16 PM Stu In advance of him joining UMSF I've been asked... Aug 27 2008, 04:13 PM ormstont Thanks to Stu for passing on the message, I'm ... Aug 27 2008, 07:18 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ormstont @ Aug 27 2008, 09:18 PM) ... Aug 28 2008, 11:29 AM imipak I'm only an "armchair UMSFer", with ... Aug 27 2008, 09:10 PM Juramike Here is an GIF animation I made from a sequence of... Aug 28 2008, 04:57 AM ormstont Phobos and Deimos would both be fun targets, the b... Aug 28 2008, 02:15 PM chiron Hi everybody
I worked the last days on a program ... Aug 29 2008, 11:07 AM tedstryk I had a go at the July 29, 2008 dataset. Man, thi... Aug 29 2008, 02:03 PM ormstont Tough stuff to work with indeed makes it all the ... Aug 29 2008, 05:41 PM tedstryk Thanks! I am headed out on vacation, but I wi... Aug 29 2008, 06:42 PM Juramike Assembled mosaic from June 22, 2008 series of imag... Aug 30 2008, 02:24 AM Juramike Handy little guide and detailed explanation of the... Aug 30 2008, 03:56 AM JTN QUOTE (Juramike @ Aug 30 2008, 04:56 AM) ... Aug 30 2008, 04:15 PM Paolo Amoroso It would be useful for the VMC site to have an RSS... Aug 31 2008, 01:49 PM ormstont Sorry for being a bit quiet - as you can probably ... Sep 4 2008, 03:56 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ormstont @ Sep 4 2008, 05:56 PM) I... Sep 5 2008, 03:11 PM Stu re your "mystery object"...
Perhaps...? Sep 4 2008, 06:43 PM ormstont Definitely hoping for Martians (then we'd have... Sep 5 2008, 11:26 AM ormstont Ok...image gallery is online on the website, along... Sep 5 2008, 02:54 PM djellison That is unusual. At first I thought it might be a... Sep 5 2008, 03:10 PM Stu I may be wrong (probably am) but think this might ... Sep 5 2008, 03:17 PM remcook cool, looks like a volcano eruption it's not ... Sep 5 2008, 03:40 PM ustrax I've been far away for so long that I've b... Sep 5 2008, 03:55 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 5 2008, 05:55 PM) [..... Sep 5 2008, 04:09 PM ustrax In this specific image it looks to me that the sha... Sep 5 2008, 05:02 PM Stu How about a meteoroid impact that sent up a big du... Sep 5 2008, 03:57 PM ustrax I'm here...
This is what I mean:
Looks to... Sep 5 2008, 04:06 PM ormstont Just to put my two cents in, you're right that... Sep 5 2008, 05:53 PM ustrax dear Ormstont, I am sorry to be a bit limited in t... Sep 6 2008, 10:12 AM ugordan It definitely appears to be atmospheric as the sha... Sep 6 2008, 07:02 PM Juramike Nice animation, Gordan!
As you've shown, ... Sep 6 2008, 07:40 PM ustrax QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 08:02 PM) It... Sep 6 2008, 08:11 PM ugordan QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 6 2008, 10:11 PM) the... Sep 6 2008, 08:43 PM TheChemist QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 11:43 PM) Yo... Sep 6 2008, 08:47 PM ustrax QUOTE (TheChemist @ Sep 6 2008, 09:47 PM)... Sep 6 2008, 09:21 PM ugordan QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 6 2008, 11:21 PM) Now... Sep 6 2008, 09:23 PM ustrax QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 10:23 PM) Co... Sep 6 2008, 09:27 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 09:02 PM) It... Sep 6 2008, 08:12 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Sep 6 2008, 10:12 ... Sep 7 2008, 02:40 PM ugordan Here's a new version of VMC2RGB, this time imp... Sep 8 2008, 09:50 PM siravan QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 02:02 PM) Ba... Sep 6 2008, 11:08 PM ugordan Yep, it appears I messed up the calculation of (at... Sep 6 2008, 11:39 PM stevesliva Does fog cast a shadow? Would it be forming above... Sep 8 2008, 10:18 PM ormstont Ok...more info on our strange cloud...we've go... Sep 11 2008, 10:08 AM remcook yes, I think 80 km is a normal altitude for these ... Sep 11 2008, 11:41 AM ormstont Wow...you beat me to posting the link I've ju... Sep 11 2008, 01:45 PM elakdawalla I'd like to include one of the VMC crescent im... Sep 12 2008, 09:38 PM ugordan All 2008 crescents indeed appear to be severely ov... Sep 12 2008, 11:36 PM ormstont So, looks like our other MEX instrument teams are ... Sep 13 2008, 07:20 PM ugordan I'd be interested in knowing what the difficul... Sep 13 2008, 07:24 PM ormstont Well, part of the difficulty is that we have no wa... Sep 13 2008, 08:23 PM ugordan QUOTE (ormstont @ Sep 13 2008, 10:23 PM) ... Sep 13 2008, 08:41 PM Tman QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 13 2008, 10:41 PM) A... Sep 13 2008, 10:27 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 13 2008, 10:41 PM) I... Sep 14 2008, 09:54 AM ormstont Ok, get what you're going for there - the only... Sep 14 2008, 11:21 AM ugordan I don't personally think a dark frame would be... Sep 14 2008, 05:43 PM jekbradbury I am trying to organize the images by position in ... Sep 14 2008, 08:57 PM ormstont QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 14 2008, 07:43 PM) T... Sep 15 2008, 08:06 AM jekbradbury That was exactly what I was looking for. Taking i... Sep 16 2008, 01:56 AM Juramike I finally downloaded Celestia (slaps head, why did... Sep 16 2008, 04:21 AM Juramike Interesting how both the "mystery cloud... Sep 16 2008, 04:30 AM ormstont QUOTE (jekbradbury @ Sep 16 2008, 03:56 A... Sep 16 2008, 08:12 AM Juramike It's baaaack!
Another cloud sequence at s... Sep 17 2008, 04:43 AM ormstont Interesting that we might have a cloud factory on ... Sep 17 2008, 09:59 AM ormstont Just a quick plug - got some more lovely shots fro... Sep 17 2008, 02:42 PM Juramike The thing that's been puzzling me is the appea... Sep 17 2008, 02:51 PM djellison I love this camera. Sep 17 2008, 03:07 PM Juramike Here is an attempted mosaic of the "relativel... Sep 18 2008, 04:31 AM Juramike There are few guarantees in life...
but finding cl... Sep 20 2008, 04:01 AM |
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