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 Oct 16 2009, 03:50 AM
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No this is not faked! I put it together from a set of departure images. only about 10% or so involved use of a duplicate
image to fill a gap. It took a lot of heavy processing to suppress Neptune glare, which caused some of the spots to go oversaturated and some of the finer ring detail to wash out but its still a pretty pic. I dont think Triton was in the vicinity at the time, which would have been a real kicker. I made this in 1993 and its been lurking in my digital files ever since. its a wonder it didnt "disappear" with all the OS and platform changes since then.
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-------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Oct 16 2009, 03:59 AM
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 Wow! That's beautiful!! -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 16 2009, 04:22 AM
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I'm speechless.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 16 2009, 04:47 AM
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 <thunk!!!>
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 16 2009, 06:42 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5549 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Wow!
That's beautiful. How come we've never seen that before?! That should have been in every astronomy book written - and every Outreach talk I've given - since you made it! 
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Oct 16 2009, 11:19 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Doctor...I just love when you emerge...
 Awesome work Paul! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 16 2009, 02:00 PM
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Wow!! I didn't have even the faintest idea the Voyager 2 dataset contained images making a mosaic like this one possible. Almost looks like a completely new planet to me ;-).
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Oct 16 2009, 03:14 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Moderator Posts: 4388 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Beautiful! Brilliant processing. As someone who has looked at those images before, I can attest to how difficult they are to clean.
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Oct 16 2009, 04:10 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1297 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Very pretty Dr. Shank - like a second Saturn lurking in the outer solar system. Here's an example of the "original" imagery that I recall:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02224.jpg I think some of the ring arcs were missed as the left and right (unshown) sides were taken at different times. Guess we'll need a new mission to address that? -------------------- Steve [ my planetary maps page ]
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Oct 16 2009, 04:13 PM
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I am amazed too, Paul!
 Can you pls give us further detail on such picture (original images, filters and so on...)?This is a very faive processing, done in order to remove some noise/dither and improve contrast. I slightly enhanced colors and, in fact, rings are reddish and planet blue!
-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Oct 16 2009, 04:19 PM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 16 2009, 10:13 AM)  I am amazed too, Paul! Can you pls give us further detail on such picture (original images, filters and so on...)?This is a very faive processing, done in order to remove some noise/dither and improve contrast. I slightly enhanced colors and, in fact, rings are reddish and planet blue!
color is artificial and not true in this mosaic. no color filters were used. As far as the ring arcs, they had rotated out of view each time an image was taken, which was a span of several hours! -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Oct 17 2009, 09:35 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 22-December 08 From: Oeiras, Portugal Member No.: 4511 |
I'm speechless too... AMAZING image
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Oct 17 2009, 10:29 PM
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Wow. That's beautiful!
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 17 2009, 11:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4732 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Sloughhouse, CA Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 16 2009, 09:13 AM) This is a very faive processing, done in order to remove some noise/dither and improve contrast. I started working on it too but realized that the inner ring is so close in image depth to the noise that its nearly impossible to remove one while keeping the other (without sectioning the image and adding artistic license) so I realized that's why Paul left it the way it was. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 18 2009, 06:03 AM
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wow, looking at the noise in the orig's, what a piece of work, done in '93? That's ShamWow!
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