New Horizons: Approach Phase, OpsNav - 25 January 15 to 28 June 15 |
New Horizons: Approach Phase, OpsNav - 25 January 15 to 28 June 15 |
Feb 3 2015, 06:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 105 Joined: 27-August 05 Member No.: 479 |
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Feb 4 2015, 09:22 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
The LORRI image release for today is up at :
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20150204 |
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Apr 20 2015, 02:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 8-November 06 From: Indiana, USA Member No.: 1337 |
I don’t want to add to the S/N ration. However, I think part of the issue here is it is not clear in this discussion that New Horizons includes two imaging experiments. All of the great tables I have seen that indicate Pluto should currently extend three or four pixels apply to the LORRI experiment. LORRI includes a huge 208mm telescope and has been imaging Pluto since 2006.
The color Image that everyone is chattering over was acquired with the RALPH experiment. RALPH is a wonderful devise that can create images in color whereas LORRI’s products are in monochrome. However, RALPH’s camera has only 60mm lens that would not be able to resolve Pluto at this distance. Even if Pluto presented a slim crescent or was as oblate as Eros, it would still occupy one pixel in the RALPH image that has been published. |
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