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Jul 21 2006, 09:09 PM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
Nice work! Keep 'em coming (hey you got airco -no excuse )
...... I'll probably redo some control points - the auto pano tool did - by hand, have the panotools take care of the brightness and color differences and finally patch up some last alignment errors by hand in Photoshop. Looks like I have my work cut out for the weekend Regarding autopano...I'm spending some last time on the Rub Al Khali pan. I knew this was going to be a nasty one for autopano but I didn't think I'd be that awful... 9 out of 10 frames came out with zero control points -selecting the best points manually over the 96 frames is, well, rather tiring, but I'll get there, and by that time I never want to see a blueberry again. Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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Jul 22 2006, 08:40 AM
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The Moonpans website now has VR (Virtual Reality) QuickTime movies of their panoramas... By The Way each Apollo landing site panorama is available as a giant poster !
Check it out at: http://moonpans.com/vr/ Philip |
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Jul 23 2006, 05:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
Apollo 15 Station 6:
http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/apollo/Apollo...0quarterres.jpg (210 KB) http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/apollo/Apollo...6%20halfres.jpg (690 KB) http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/apollo/Apollo...Station%206.jpg (2.5 MB) -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Aug 14 2006, 06:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Aug 14 2006, 06:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Marvellous pictures! When I see these pictures, the Moon hills are so smooth, rounded, with shapes nothing alike to dunes in the Earth, besides, there are many minicraters and I tought how luckly are the astronauts on the Moon surface without being hit by a meteorite.
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Aug 14 2006, 07:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
The black sky looks so strange after we've gotten used to Mars' sky, too.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
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Aug 14 2006, 07:46 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Great!
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Aug 14 2006, 07:52 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yes, some beautiful pans. I have to point out an error though. The Apollo 14 pan signed by Ed Mitchell points out features he calls "Doublet Crater". Actualy it's not, it's part of the ridge south of Cone Crater, with a crater called "Old Nameless" on its slope. Double was in the other direction and basically invisible in the down-sun highlight. Ed mis-remembered after all these years.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 15 2006, 06:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
You know, Phil, it's funny that Ed Mitchell would misremember such a thing, when you and I remember that landing site so vividly. (Yes, I know Ed's getting up in years... but still.)
Even to this day, some 35 years and five months later, I still could walk up to a picture of the landing site and point out Triplet, Doublet, Weird, Outpost, Flank... and, of course, Cone and Old Nameless. Heck, I can even usually find the Cloverleaf and Star (which were Apollo 13 designations that got dropped during Apollo 14 planning), if the image includes enough of the surrounding terrain. I don't know why that particular landing site was so memorable -- maybe because it was small enough for you to memorize all the fine detail (unlike some of the J-missions; I have to look at a map to tell you where Salyut and Earthlight were located at Hadley, for instance), but varied enough to provide some very memorable features. One thing I never understood -- if sampling Cone was so important, why didn't they land in the valley between Cone and Triplet? They could have easily deployed the ALSEP to the north or south, in better and flatter terrain than up near Doublet, and would only have had to walk a half-mile to get to Cone and not the mile they ended up walking... oh, well, I guess it's a little late to be second-guessing such things. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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