New Horizon Cameras |
New Horizon Cameras |
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Apr 22 2005, 03:57 AM
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I've been wondering what the focal lengths are for the two New Horizon cameras (Ralph and Lorri). Curious to know how much Alan et al. were able to squeeze into their weight budget.
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Apr 22 2005, 07:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 127 |
QUOTE (vjkane2000 @ Apr 22 2005, 03:57 AM) I've been wondering what the focal lengths are for the two New Horizon cameras (Ralph and Lorri). Curious to know how much Alan et al. were able to squeeze into their weight budget. And will they have a way to focus 'em if the bake off doesn't fit the modeling profile! |
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Apr 22 2005, 08:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
The sad thing about the optical calibration issues that appear to be cropping up on so many current/future missions is that 35 years ago, they had the thing done and dusted:
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/mariner9.html "...star images were taken during the interplanetary cruise and also while orbiting Mars to determine and then monitor other geometric properties of the cameras. The narrow angle camera had a detection threshold of 9th visual magnitude, enabling at least a few stars to be imaged in any long exposure picture. Focal lengths and relative camera alignments were computed from the star images and were found to be stable to an accuracy of a pixel throughout the mission." Of course, that was before all the fun with Hubble! You'd think, though, that after Hubble, and MCO, and Genesis there's be a sorta checklist cum diary on each of the mission staff's desks - you know, things like: * Fix Focus by Friday * Go Metric on Monday * Set pyros after Sunday (AKA This Way Up on Wednesday!) -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 12 2005, 08:39 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Apr 22 2005, 08:07 PM) The sad thing about the optical calibration issues that appear to be cropping up on so many current/future missions is that 35 years ago, they had the thing done and dusted: http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/mariner9.html Well, I'd bet $10 that the pixels now are at least an order of magnitude smaller, if not more, than the pixels for Mariner 9. I'd bet $1 they're 2 or more. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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