Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Nov 14 2009, 10:10 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
GREAT work Machi! Wow, that brought back some memories...
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Nov 14 2009, 10:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Nice!
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Nov 14 2009, 10:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Coooool!! If you could only slow it down a little bit Yes I can, but not on this computer. But I recommend use some movieplayer with adjustable speed. Some like mplayer or so. -------------------- |
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Nov 14 2009, 10:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
That's awesome, Machi!
I took your work and stabilized the frames a bit more, do you mind me posting it here? -------------------- |
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Nov 14 2009, 11:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
That's awesome, Machi! I took your work and stabilized the frames a bit more, do you mind me posting it here? Of course you can! Sorry my english isn't so good, so this can be sometimes little problem -------------------- |
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Nov 14 2009, 11:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Ok, here it is. Just some aligned frames and a slight pause at the end, other than that your work is untouched.
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Nov 15 2009, 12:16 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
GREAT work, Machi (& Gordan!) The animation really brings the encounter to life. In fact, the craters on Halley were never obvious to me before; it's a much better presentation of the dataset than offered by the stills.
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Nov 15 2009, 03:32 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Oh, man, that is spectacular. Fabulous work, machi, and nice upgrade, ugordan! If I weren't two sheets to the wind already this evening I'd post it now. Must remember to post it tomorrow or Monday! As a general comment, nearly any time I post an animation I always slow it down substantially (setting frame delays to a minimum of 0.25 seconds) so that the viewer has time for eyes to focus on features in each frame. I also usually put in a pause on the last and first frames in order to allow people the time to recognize that the sequence is starting over.
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Nov 15 2009, 04:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 25-November 04 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 113 |
A wonderful reconstruction, but in the interests of absolute historical accuracy I must remind people that these were not the images we saw on the night. I anchored a two-hour TV programme during the encounter and no-one warned us that Giotto was not Voyager. The first and only picture on the night - during hours of live TV coverage across Europe - was this one.
The implications for European space policy were profound. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister in the UK and was watching the BBC coverage in the private apartment at Downing Street with, I think, Sir John Fairclough, her science advisor. She asked: "What are we paying for this?". And I'm afraid the rest is history. |
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Nov 15 2009, 07:13 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Ah yes, Giotto encounter night, I remember it well, and still get a slightly queasy feeling when I do. I was a youngling then, and as an avid and obsessed-with-space-since-I-was-THIS-high Halley's Comet was a massive, massive deal for me, and I'd been watching it brighten and grow through my 3" scope, from a tiny fuzzball to a slightly bigger fuzzball, and was almost wetting mjyself with excitement on "Giotto Night". I told my family that we absolutely HAD to watch the live TV coverage, and they indulged me and went along with it. So, there we were, all watching the TV, waiting for the images to come in, listening to the "experts" in the studio getting more and more excited as the clock ticked down to closest approach... looking forward to seeing the solid nucleus, the tail, all in close-up... When the actual images came down, and they were just that migraine-inducing splash of colour that looked like someone had spilled paint on the TV screen, and no-one in the studio seemed to know either if the encounter had gone as planned or what the hell they were looking at on the pictures, four sets of eyes turned to me accusingly in a "You made us sit here and wait for this..?" kind of way...
It didn't matter how hard I wished, the ground didn't open up and swallow me. Of course, I now know that that image was an amazing achiement, and that I'd be very impressed by it if I saw it here on UMSF now, but at the time it was a crushing, crushing disappointment, and I remember thinking how much I preferred the honest view through my own trusty telescope. I've often wondered how differently things would have turned out if Giotto's images had been more photographic. Would more people here in the UK, and across Europe, have been inspired by space exploration? But, on the other hand, it was covered live on TV, with images shown almost in realtime. That didn't happen with ROSETTA's encounters with Mars or Earth. Makes you think, doesn't it? -------------------- |
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Nov 15 2009, 08:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
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Nov 15 2009, 09:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
That is fantastic - ollopa you should have kept the show on air for another 24 years! (I don't remember being disappointed on the night. I remember being delighted that the probe survived the encounter, thrilled and intrigued by the images that no-one could immediately interpret, and proud to be watching a mission run from Europe.)
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Nov 15 2009, 12:50 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Excellent work! Which camera is this from?
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Nov 15 2009, 02:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I think all images are mostly with clear filter (images with index from 1600 to 2017, sensors C and E, camera HMC). These are relatively without noise.
But I lost all original converted images in the spring, so I don't know this surely. -------------------- |
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Nov 15 2009, 05:48 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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