Charon Surface Observations: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 1 Aug 2015- TBD Options

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This topic is for images and discussion of same received after 1 Aug 2015.

[machi]

Best global view of Charon from New Horizons at resolution 650 m/pix in color (both grayscale and color images from MVIC):

[bkellysky]

[quote name='machi' date='Dec 13 2016, 05:29 PM' post='233720']
Best global view of Charon from New Horizons at resolution 650 m/pix in color (both grayscale and color images from MVIC):
When I saw this, it seemed like the number of pixels in a photo I had of our Moon.

Click to get the full size version to compare with Machi's Charon.
This is our moon, taken with a Canon XS through an 200mm dobsonian reflector telescope at about 800 m/pix.
It's in color, but not processed at all. So the resolution at the level of a few pixels is fuzzier than the New Horizons photo.
The human eye, through this telescope could see some smaller objects; in part by adjusting better for the large range of brightness.
But perhaps this is how our moon can be seen at the resolution of photos from Charon.

I made a rough measurement of the width of the part of the moon in the photo on google moon and divided it into the number of pixels in the photo.
bob