Voyager 1 Saturn movies Options

[owlsyme]

I've been making some more movies -

Dione v0.60 - https://i.imgur.com/7ARNCEd.mp4 - need to adjust brightness on some.

I don't have the ability to center Saturn yet, so will make do with slideshows for now - some of the ring shots are really nice - https://i.imgur.com/1oLem3f.mp4

This doesn't compete with Cassini, of course, but for me, it captures the excitement of seeing these moons and images for the first time.

I'm aiming to have a semi-complete movie done by June 1, with j1 s1 u2 n2. Will finish Voyager 2 after that.

Then someday, will make a color movie of Saturn - there are plenty of pics for that.

[owlsyme]

Okay, here's the complete Voyager 1 flyby of Saturn - it's 4 mins. Be sure to click the gear and set the quality to 720p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC8yt4WRT_A

The slideshow segments don't show up at full-resolution for me, especially of the rings - I guess it's an issue with video compression and download speeds. The mp4 video I uploaded is 24MB.

The video description has timestamps for the different segments and width of the moons relative to Earth's -

Contents:
00:00:00 Approach
00:00:21 Storm in south
00:00:31 Titan (large moon with thick atmosphere) (148%)
00:00:51 Rings
00:01:59 Tethys (a death star moon) (30%)
00:02:09 Mimas (another death star moon) (12%)
00:02:22 Dione (moon with spider-like cracks) (32%)
00:02:42 Iapetus (black and white moon) (42%)
00:02:52 Rhea (another moon with cracks) (44%)
00:03:23 Retreat

The highlights to me working on this project were seeing the small storms on Saturn, the textures in the rings as they rotate, the black and white moon Iapetus, the layered atmosphere of Titan (unless that's motion blur?), the cracked moons of Rhea and Dione, and some of the amazing Saturn+ring shots.

This is version 0.60 - later versions will have colors movies of Saturn and Titan, crops, etc.

Also will include the trajectory plots - generated with SPICE and the planet/spacecraft positions -



And here's that shot of Titan (C3492126) - is this just motion blur?



Thanks to Bjorn Jonsson for img2png, which is what converts the Voyager img files to pngs. The rest is done with https://github.com/bburns/PyVoyager.

The next step will be to work on a compilation of the j1s1u2n2 flybys - aiming for June 1 release. Then make a complete movie with j2s2.

[StargazeInWonder]

A wonderful job of compilation!

The image of Titan is not, I think, demonstrating motion blur. Those are layers of haze with different characteristics, and the upper ones are blue in color composites. Cassini provided a lot more information about the nature of the layers, which vary over time and latitude.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/...2238_13172.html