Voyager camera pointing information |
Voyager camera pointing information |
Jul 29 2016, 09:32 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 7-July 16 From: Austin, Texas Member No.: 7991 |
Sorry if this has been discussed anywhere but I can't seem to find much information about it - why is it that Voyager's pointing is so haphazard, as in this video of all the RAW Jupiter images - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf5QJ8iFxUs?
I came across this link which says that pointing information for the images exists - http://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/ck.html, but have also read on this forum that it's not very accurate. Would the information be useful in automatically aligning composite images and mosaics, or is it too coarse? Would it at least be useful in getting general alignments that could be refined by hand? And does anyone know why the cameras could not be pointed more accurately, or why accurate information could not be returned with the images? I assume it was some technical limitation, but just curious what it might be. |
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Jul 30 2016, 02:01 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 7-July 16 From: Austin, Texas Member No.: 7991 |
Okay, thank you both for the information - it all makes more sense now.
I'm just starting to get stabilization working for the movies, which works for most simple cases - I was planning to try to crowd-source the rest (assuming such a crowd could be found - I figured some people on Reddit might be interested). But it sounds like once the C-smithed kernels are available that wouldn't be necessary - it would be possible to generate stable movies and composites somewhat automatically. Of course, generating accurate C kernels would be where all the hard work is... Well, I'll post movies as they get more stable, as much as can be automated anyway - I can't stop now... |
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