The Big One, My latest (and last for a while!) mosaic... |
The Big One, My latest (and last for a while!) mosaic... |
Mar 5 2007, 04:04 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
I started working on the following mosaic on the 22nd of February, and just over 10 days later, it is finally completed. At times it was an extremely frustrating process indeed; however, as each tile fitted together and more of the finished composite was revealed, I grew ever more excited.
Now it is with a big sigh of relief that I can finally reveal Saturn as she presented herself to Cassini on the evening of the 20th of February, 2007: I dedicate this image to all the great folks here on UMSF who have greatly enriched my enjoyment of space exploration. Enjoy! Ian. -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2007, 04:11 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
The mosaic includes all of the moons interior to Dione, apart from Daphnis and Epimetheus. Here are some excerpts from the composite with each moon labelled:
The same view courtesy of Mark Showalter's Saturn Viewer 2.5: -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2007, 04:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
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Mar 5 2007, 04:15 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Finally, here's a sample of the full-size image:
Due to technical reasons, I can only post the mosaic at 50% its original size (in other words, my computer is too crap to handle the full-res image in its entirety!). Ian. -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2007, 04:16 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oh... my... word..... If you don't mind me showing it to them, this will knock em off their chairs at my astronomy society meeting tonight... and at EVERY talk I do from now on! Good job Ian. Good job. -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2007, 05:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
(This might be my first post on a Saturn thread.)
Hats off, Ian! |
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Mar 5 2007, 06:01 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
****
That's sweet |
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Mar 5 2007, 06:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Now I need an Outer Planets Swear Jar.
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Mar 5 2007, 07:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
Thanks for all your hard work Ian. That mosaic is incerdible!
-------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Mar 5 2007, 10:39 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Thanks everyone for the kind words - the cheques are in the post as I type!
Stu, you are more than welcome to use ANY of my pictures in ANY of your talks. Good luck, and I hope it goes well tonight (I just hope this reply isn't too late). Ian. -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2007, 11:08 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Ian, there were 33 people at my meeting tonight and I reckon I heard 32 gasps when that image came on the screen... and it was a BIG screen! To put it in context I showed it after showing some images I took of the Saturn occultation from last week, and immediately after the recent official Cassini pix... when yours flashed up several people swore, I'm not joking!
I have four talks lined up for the British "National Science and Engineering Week" mid-March, roughly 300 people, so they'll all enjoy your pic too. Well done again. -------------------- |
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Mar 6 2007, 07:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
drool.
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Mar 8 2007, 06:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Very good job. It's a beautiful Saturn picture!
You are the best in Cassini image processing so far I know Many thanks! -------------------- |
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Mar 9 2007, 05:34 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I went through the raw images yesterday and counted up a total of seven complete multispectral mosaics on the planet since the 19th. For those of you who want to take up Ian's work now that he's been driven mad by doing two of these, you could assemble the mosaics from: February 5 (unlit side, ring opening angle 30ish degrees); February 18 (lit side, ring opening angle in the high 50s, Saturn at roughly half phase), Feburary 19 (lit side, ring opening angle in the high 50s, Saturn at mostly full phase), or February 27-28 (unlit side, ring opening angle in the high 50s, Saturn in a crescent phase).
Some of the images are unfortunately marred by some stripy noisy data dropouts (like this one). I've heard that this is due to a bad sumbodule (one of 128) on one of the SSRs. It must have been hit by some extra-energetic cosmic ray and is corrupted. They're working on a flight software update that will automatically skip over this submodule, but it won't be uplinked for a couple of months, so we'll continue to see those from time to time. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Dec 5 2007, 11:52 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
I've reprocessed the colours in this mosaic in light of the official Photojournal release, which only covers the bottom-left corner of the entire view:
Unfortunately, it seems as if the centre tile is over-exposed to the point of saturation, although I haven't yet looked at the PDS release to see if that is indeed the case. Ian. -------------------- |
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