Voyager images of Despina and its shadow transiting Neptune |
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Voyager images of Despina and its shadow transiting Neptune |
 Aug 6 2009, 06:40 AM
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 Lord Of The Uranian Rings  Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437  |
Fantastic work Ted!
 Makes me salivate for a Cassini-esque Neptune orbiter...Ian. -------------------- |
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Aug 6 2009, 08:34 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
QUOTE (SFJCody @ Aug 6 2009, 12:26 AM)  That is astounding stuff. Makes me think about what else might be lurking in the PDS awaiting future discovery... Imagine what people will see in all the Cassini and Mars data 50 years from now. Who knows?! Great work Ted! |
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Aug 6 2009, 02:18 PM
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Ted,
That is humbling work that you do, brother! Congratulations on a wonderful piece of science. -------------------- CLA CLL
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Aug 6 2009, 02:31 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Good on you Ted
Any work on Sputnik "Bip-Bip"? -------------------- |
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Aug 6 2009, 02:44 PM
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Brillant work, Ted.
 Well done! Will you try to get the moon named after you? How about Tedinia? 
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Aug 6 2009, 05:17 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Despina is just fine
What I possess is not a skill...it is a combination of stubbornness and tenacity.
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Aug 6 2009, 05:41 PM
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Too bad an extreme enlargement of Despina shows no craters eager to be named for you.
Perhaps you can deconvolute it or something to show a feature to be your namesake. Or failing that, they just name the imaged hemisphere a Regio in your honor. |
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Aug 6 2009, 05:57 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
In all seriousness, the phase angle is so low that there are not a lot of shadows, which (in addition to the low resolution) makes it look featureless.
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Aug 6 2009, 06:47 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
There are quite a few images crawling around the net showing "features" on Despina, but they are merely products of the deconvolution of the not-convoluted (at least not to that degree).
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Aug 7 2009, 01:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 20-September 05 From: North Texas Member No.: 503 |
"Interplanetary Dumpster Diver!
"Great work Ted. In addition to the new title, maybe you should consider changing your personal icon to the Neptune transit image. It would be fitting. David |
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Aug 7 2009, 01:58 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
The problem is that at avatar size, one wouldn't be able to see it.
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Aug 7 2009, 02:11 AM
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I think the Mars 3 crescent Mars image is very nearly as obscure as Despina. And while the Despina discovery is cool, I don't think it's quite as cool as the discovery of "Uranus-shine" details on Ariel -- I'd advocate for that as your avatar before Despina! Face it, no one matches Ted for finding cool stuff in cast-off data.
Two thumbs up for "Interplanetary Dumpster Diver." --E -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Aug 7 2009, 04:46 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Thank you for your kind words.
Phil Stooke found the planetshine images of Ariel - I just improved them a bit. -------------------- |
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Aug 12 2009, 06:02 PM
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 IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
This is an amazing discovery - congratulations!
I wonder if there's more interesting stuff waiting to be discovered in the Voyager images. |
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Aug 12 2009, 06:18 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Thank you. I would say there is a lot hiding in vidicon gunk and reseau. There are definitely more transit images - this was not the initial "discovery" set.
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