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Exquisite Saturn Images |
 Jan 27 2009, 09:22 AM
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Great stuff, Ian! Very realistic colors, I think.
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Jan 27 2009, 06:13 PM
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It's Tethys.
Nice work, Ian; straight to the blog! --Emily
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Jan 29 2009, 02:56 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 for the great feedback guys! I'm just happy that the colour balance seems to be about right this time. For comparison, here is a reduced version of the raw composite:
The adjustments I made at this point, for what it's worth, were as follows:
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Feb 1 2009, 12:26 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
What a pity this shot of Prometheus's shadow on the rings is truncated:
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Feb 1 2009, 04:06 PM
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That's Epimetheus's shadow actually
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 Mar 23 2009, 04:30 PM
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Apr 20 2009, 06:24 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
You want "exquisite"? Look no further than The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" special on Cassini...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/c...ed_mission.html 
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Apr 20 2009, 10:43 PM
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Great find, Stu, and terrific to see Cassini featured so well in a 'popular' venue!
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Apr 20 2009, 10:54 PM
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I know the guy who runs the Big Picture, Alan Taylor. He's as into space exploration as everyone else here. He filters through the raw imagery on several missions pretty regularly. (I keep trying to get him to come on by. I think he'd like the place.)
He's done a few other Cassini summaries over the years, like this one on Flickr, and others on the Big Picture. He's the same guy who did the "All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter" poster. |
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Apr 21 2009, 09:57 PM
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QUOTE (maschnitz @ Apr 20 2009, 11:54 PM)  I think he'd like the place. Judging by that selection of Cassini images, I'm sure the feeling would be mutual. -------------------- --
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May 22 2009, 03:51 AM
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May 22 2009, 12:15 PM
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What is that? The gravity of a shepherd moonlet causing a ripple in the rings?
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May 22 2009, 01:32 PM
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Very interesting. What did cause that.
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May 22 2009, 01:50 PM
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Helpful caption here
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedet...fm?imageId=3514 |
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May 22 2009, 03:18 PM
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The orbit of Prometheus is excentric, so it gets closer and furether away from the F-Ring. I undrstand the F-Ring is also a little excentric itself. The amount Prometheus dives into the F-Ring and how deep of a gore it makes depends upon how the two excentricities line up. I belive they will maximally interact some time in August. The movie was obviously made targeting Prometheus--so you have a moving frame of reference. The blank/black part of the movie was when Prometheus was in Saturn's shadow.
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