KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
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KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
 Oct 21 2007, 10:42 AM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571  |
QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 21 2007, 05:09 PM)  Only problem with these images is that Moon-watchers like me are going to spend hours trying to identify craters on them... !!! In the Japanese PDF file, several craters are identified. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071021_kaguya.pdf Some of them are written in English, but I'm afraid it uses Japanese fonts  I'm not sure if your PDF viewer can display them... if it can't, then I'll post screen captures 
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Oct 21 2007, 10:57 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I took all 13 images and tweaked the color balance in them as it appears the blue channel overwhelms everything. A similar case was present with the HDTV image of Earth earlier. Hopefully they'll fix this during normal operations.
This tweak inevitably brought some overexposure in areas where the blue channel was already saturated. I made an animated GIF of all the frames (2 megabytes). Here are a couple of sample shots:
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Oct 21 2007, 12:27 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
nop - screen captures would be really useful, thanks, simply because I'm heading out to work now and don't have time to go exploring that .pdf file!
ugordan - brilliant idea changing the colour balance, thanks, and the animation is great too. How spoiled are we with all this talent here, seriously?!! 
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Oct 21 2007, 02:38 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 21 2007, 05:27 AM) How spoiled are we with all this talent here, seriously?!! Very. Extremely. To say nothing of your own, Stu... Think it's safe to say that Kaguya has produced more vanity pics than any other spacecraft to date by now...love it, feels like we're looking out a porthole during the journey!!! 
-------------------- 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 21 2007, 03:03 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 21 2007, 09:27 PM) nop - screen captures would be really useful, thanks, simply because I'm heading out to work now and don't have time to go exploring that .pdf file! Ok, Stu, here are captures
(*COURTESY OF JAXA* without any edition) And FYI this is translation of the press conference held today (thanks to JSPACE) http://jspace.misshie.jp/index.php?LbyD%2F20071021 |
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Oct 21 2007, 07:38 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 21 2007, 10:57 AM) I took all 13 images and tweaked the color balance in them as it appears the blue channel overwhelms everything. A similar case was present with the HDTV image of Earth earlier. Hopefully they'll fix this during normal operations. This tweak inevitably brought some overexposure in areas where the blue channel was already saturated. ... Gordan, I noticed too the color issue in all images, joined to a general misfocus (rescaling?) and strong jpeg artifacts. So I tried to mitigate all these defects and I made such poster with almost all published images (not too different from your nice movie idea ):
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Oct 21 2007, 11:11 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Beautiful work, Dilo!
God, it seems as if we could just reach out and touch it...
-------------------- 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 22 2007, 02:58 AM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
nprev, I think you've put your finger on why these kinds of photos -- with bits of spacecraft parts obtruding into them -- are so cool. If the spacecraft gets its thumb in the way of the lens, then why not me?
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Oct 22 2007, 04:57 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Having parts of the spacecraft framing these vistas provide us psychological referents. It vastly increases the ability to imagine yourself actually *in* the place you're looking at.
I think it says something about the human desire/need to explore that these images, which include spacecraft "framing" views, are somehow more satisfying than any others. -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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Oct 22 2007, 08:52 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Agreed. Those Kagyusha "port-hole" views remind me of Rosetta flying past Mars...
Rosetta fly-by of Mars |
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Oct 22 2007, 04:20 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 21 2007, 07:38 AM) Think it's safe to say that Kaguya has produced more vanity pics than any other spacecraft to date by now.. Agreed - I hope our graphics gurus will cross post some of the best on the Spacecraft Vanity Thread... -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Oct 23 2007, 05:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I KNEW those Kaguya vanity shots reminded me of something!
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Oct 24 2007, 12:06 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
KAGUYA rules....
Yeah.... the porthole effect.... the virtual thumb cover the Earth .... All.... I remember watching Ranger 7 impact the Moon... and Apollo 8 give us Earthrise on a Christmas Eve in 1968.... seeing these new images now still gives me chills...... We are returning. TEARS!!! Craig |
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Oct 31 2007, 01:12 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
More pictures - the various instruments are being deployed.
Phil http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/img/topics_20071031_e.pdf -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Nov 7 2007, 09:23 AM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 554 |
here!
http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/11_e.html http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_...ya_movie_e.html -------------------- my name means " Friend of Earth" , not your foe!
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