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Rev198: Saturn wide-angle mosaic
ugordan
post Oct 16 2013, 11:07 PM
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On October 10th, Cassini wide-angle camera captured a set of 12 RGB footprints covering Saturn and the rings. Here's an attempt at compositing that data into a mosaic. It's not geometrically accurate, but I tried coaxing the data into at least looking nice.



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- ugordan   Rev198: Saturn wide-angle mosaic   Oct 16 2013, 11:07 PM
- - elakdawalla   ...and that one's going straight to the blog. ...   Oct 17 2013, 12:17 AM
|- - tedstryk   My jaw just hit the floor...amazing!   Oct 17 2013, 01:13 AM
|- - The Bad Astronomer   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 16 2013, 05:17 P...   Oct 17 2013, 12:18 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (The Bad Astronomer @ Oct 17 2013, 05...   Oct 17 2013, 05:30 PM
|- - stephenv2   QUOTE (The Bad Astronomer @ Oct 17 2013, 08...   Oct 17 2013, 05:57 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Holy smokes! I'm speechless. Thank you Gor...   Oct 17 2013, 04:17 AM
- - Astro0   Wow! That's the sort of view I've drea...   Oct 17 2013, 05:16 AM
- - Explorer1   Aaaand that's a new desktop...   Oct 17 2013, 05:23 AM
- - remcook   Really great!   Oct 17 2013, 07:28 AM
- - Ian R   Amazing Gordan! If you don't mind me p...   Oct 17 2013, 09:36 AM
|- - ugordan   Ian, I simply assumed the original data used 12bit...   Oct 17 2013, 10:52 AM
|- - Ian R   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 17 2013, 11:52 AM) I...   Oct 21 2013, 08:07 PM
|- - ugordan   I haven't found a reliable way to handle the L...   Oct 21 2013, 08:47 PM
|- - stephenv2   I have not done this yet but a curves preset could...   Oct 21 2013, 09:03 PM
|- - ugordan   It would be a simple enough task if it wasn't ...   Oct 21 2013, 09:16 PM
|- - stephenv2   I was under the impression that the amount of stre...   Oct 21 2013, 09:20 PM
|- - ugordan   There is no camera metadata available for the Cass...   Oct 21 2013, 09:25 PM
|- - stephenv2   I'm pretty sure you are right, I don't rec...   Oct 21 2013, 09:32 PM
- - jamescanvin   Oh My! That is astonishing. New desktop here a...   Oct 17 2013, 01:05 PM
- - stephenv2   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 16 2013, 07:07 PM) O...   Oct 17 2013, 02:56 PM
- - Explorer1   You're on Slashdot too (and so is this thread)...   Oct 17 2013, 05:05 PM
- - wildespace   The mosaic is the Image of the Day at NASA: http:/...   Oct 18 2013, 07:51 PM
- - remcook   Today in the paper. Not bad at all Gordan! (m...   Oct 19 2013, 09:24 AM
|- - dilo   Congratulations, Gordan... breathtaking image!   Oct 19 2013, 11:37 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   Wow... this is awesome, especially when keeping in...   Oct 21 2013, 11:09 PM
- - pat   And the mosaic using the science quality images h...   Oct 28 2013, 07:05 AM
- - djellison   Honestly - I prefer ugordan's   Oct 28 2013, 01:49 PM
|- - tedstryk   Yeah, the official one is, err, really yellow.   Oct 28 2013, 02:29 PM
- - algorithm   Agreed, not as asthetically pleasing as Ugordans. ...   Oct 28 2013, 05:03 PM
- - Astro0   The official one is a bit disappointing. Some very...   Oct 28 2013, 10:42 PM
- - brellis   thanks ugordan - my desktop is now complete!   Oct 28 2013, 10:44 PM
- - mcaplinger   All these observations about the shortcomings of t...   Oct 28 2013, 10:59 PM
|- - tedstryk   Suggesting that an official release image could ha...   Oct 29 2013, 02:16 AM
- - Ian R   Taking the thread on to less controversial ground,...   Nov 10 2013, 06:51 AM
- - stephenv2   Great stuff Ian - very nice work. How many frames ...   Nov 10 2013, 03:19 PM
- - Ian R   Thanks! All I did was tween the original 58 fr...   Nov 11 2013, 12:34 AM
- - tanjent   It is interesting that in addition to the hexagona...   Nov 11 2013, 02:00 PM
- - wildespace   Cassini website has now a new area "Amateur I...   Feb 10 2014, 12:18 PM


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