New Hi-res Jupiter Maps from Cassini |
New Hi-res Jupiter Maps from Cassini |
Mar 27 2006, 02:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Mar 27 2006, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
THAT's cool! thanks for the heads up.
Now I'm going to sit back and see what cool tricks our UMSF colleagues can do with this image. Anyone for a high res rotating spherical projection gif? -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 27 2006, 04:55 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Now I'm going to sit back and see what cool tricks our UMSF colleagues can do with this image. Anyone for a high res rotating spherical projection gif? Quick and dirty with Celestia. This is fairly heavily jpeg reduced but you get the idea. It's quite a nice map and the two small white oval storms that have subsequently become Red Junior /Oval BA are nicely visible. Looks pretty cool alright spinning around. I'd post a video but avi's ain't allowed. |
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Mar 27 2006, 08:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Quick and dirty with Celestia. This is fairly heavily jpeg reduced but you get the idea. It's quite a nice map and the two small white oval storms that have subsequently become Red Junior /Oval BA are nicely visible. Looks pretty cool alright spinning around. I'd post a video but avi's ain't allowed. Darn if I don't owe you another beer, dude. Nice, very nice. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 27 2006, 09:47 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Sorry to spoil the party but I made an even higher resolution map (7560x3780 pixels) several months ago. I just added a smaller version (2880x1440 pixels) of it to my website. Also the color balance of my map is probably more realistic, at least compared to what Jupiter looks like to me through a telescope. However, Jupiter's color is somewhat subjective.
And this may be nitpicking but the claim that the CICLOPS maps "are the most detailed global color maps of Jupiter ever produced" is obviously false . Even the full-size version of the map I made back in 2002 based on Voyager 2 images is bigger (5040x2520 pixels) . Several renderings based on these maps can be seen on my Jupiter page. |
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Mar 27 2006, 10:59 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Sorry to spoil the party No spoiling for me at any rate - your imaging\rendering\texture work is awesome. Anyway just to compare (hope you don't mind) : Celestia movie of IO Eclipse shadow traversing Bjorn Jonsson's texture. Celestia movie of IO Eclipse shadow traversing the Cassini Jupiter Map Bjorn's does look more real to me too I must say but the Cassini texture is very vivid. I know the textures aren't properly aligned - I have no idea what the correct position of 0 longitude at the time of the images would be so I left them as they were. Thanks to Ian R for pointing out that these folks will host this. The files are quite small - both under half a meg so it would be neater to have them here. *Edit* Found a way to persuade GooglePages to host em so I changed the links so it's less jumping through hoops to get the files. Thanks all the same as that image hosting site should be useful for genuinely big stuff. These use the Divx 5.2.1 codec so there may be problems viewing them. Bjorn - if you have any problems with my using your texture just let me know I'll remove the video it ASAP. |
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Mar 29 2006, 12:38 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Bjorn - if you have any problems with my using your texture just let me know I'll remove the video it ASAP. No problem. However, I cannot download the animation created using my map.I know the textures aren't properly aligned - I have no idea what the correct position of 0 longitude at the time of the images would be so I left them as they were The location of longitude 0 should be correct in my map, i.e. at the left/right edge (needless to say this is usually of minor importance).
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Mar 29 2006, 05:38 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Helvick,
I have the same problem, the second movie works fine, the first doesn't. Gives me some kind of Google error page. -------------------- 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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Mar 29 2006, 06:38 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Helvick, I have the same problem, the second movie works fine, the first doesn't. Gives me some kind of Google error page. Fixed that. Oops. I'd checked that the link worked but didn't pay attention to the actual URL - it was linking to the page editor preview not the published file. |
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