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800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas

djellison View Member Profile	Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM Post #1
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	With Spirit producing an annoyingly large amount of power given her current predicament, the time may well have come to re-open the Gusev astronomy society. Anyone have any dusk / nightime observation ideas?

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djellison 800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM

Astro0 Thinking ahead... - A low sun angle view of the r... Jun 6 2009, 07:20 AM

Stu QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 6 2009, 08:20 AM) - P... Jun 6 2009, 10:01 AM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 6 2009, 12:01 PM) If my ... Jun 6 2009, 01:02 PM

James Sorenson I'm not sure if this would work, and is probab... Jun 6 2009, 08:40 AM

climber From my place (here on Earth) I'm able, with d... Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM

akuo An extended sunset movie would be nice with colour... Jun 6 2009, 10:38 AM

ngunn I'd like them to scan the dark sky at each end... Jun 6 2009, 11:28 AM

Stu Just for fun... this is inaccurate in countless (t... Jun 6 2009, 12:36 PM

SpaceListener I have already checked with the http://space.jpl.n... Jun 6 2009, 04:55 PM

nprev Still think it would be worth staring at appropria... Jun 6 2009, 05:10 PM

fredk I agree that recovering an orbiter would be very i... Jun 6 2009, 06:03 PM

nprev QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 6 2009, 11:03 AM) I ag... Jun 6 2009, 07:36 PM

Deimos Keep the ideas coming. Not surprisingly, many of t... Jun 6 2009, 07:44 PM

Stu Some number crunching on the Earth image... hopefu... Jun 6 2009, 07:59 PM

Fran Ontanaya Is there any chance of detecting triboluminescence... Jun 6 2009, 09:16 PM

akuo Would it be technically possible to track the Mart... Jun 7 2009, 03:47 PM

tasp The triboluminesence idea got me thinking, with th... Jun 7 2009, 08:22 PM

Fran Ontanaya http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/14jul_dust... Jun 7 2009, 09:13 PM

Oersted How fast can they take consecutive images? Would b... Jun 8 2009, 12:59 AM

Deimos QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 8 2009, 01:59 AM) Ho... Jun 8 2009, 01:40 PM

akuo QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 8 2009, 01:40 PM) No,... Jun 9 2009, 08:12 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 6 2009, 12:03 PM) ... ... Jun 8 2009, 05:54 AM

climber Please check this and tell me if you can see ... Jun 8 2009, 12:54 PM

djellison We've mentioned this many times before. Check... Jun 8 2009, 12:59 PM

Astro0 I'd be more interested in something that appea... Jun 8 2009, 01:00 PM

djellison A hot pixel with added pixel bleed? Jun 8 2009, 01:25 PM

ElkGroveDan I don't believe that hot pixels "bleed... Jun 8 2009, 01:31 PM

Deimos QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jun 8 2009, 02:31 PM... Jun 8 2009, 01:50 PM

Stu If I was Spirit I'd be keeping a close eye on ... Jun 8 2009, 01:33 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 8 2009, 08:40 AM) ...... Jun 8 2009, 02:27 PM

djellison MER CCD response is in this paper http://pancam.a... Jun 8 2009, 02:34 PM

Stu Playing about with STARRY NIGHT again just now I f... Jun 8 2009, 04:13 PM

fredk Stu, can you find out what our elongation from the... Jun 8 2009, 04:24 PM

Stu Then... ... and now... Jun 8 2009, 05:29 PM

fredk Thanks Stu. I get around 29 or 30 degrees elongat... Jun 8 2009, 05:59 PM

Deimos Dust opacity was actually higher then, but Earth w... Jun 8 2009, 06:33 PM

Stu Oh, just click away, you'll get something. It... Jun 8 2009, 06:51 PM

marswiggle I don't have any parameters at hand, but I sup... Jun 8 2009, 11:08 PM

Pertinax So much of the low and even middle hanging fruit h... Jun 9 2009, 01:47 AM

Deimos The MER PMA points much more precisely and accurat... Jun 9 2009, 03:34 PM

climber From Scott Twitter: Amazingly, we're planning ... Jun 17 2009, 08:39 PM

Stu Yep, time for another Gusev AS star party...! ... Jun 17 2009, 09:18 PM

Deimos Yes, we've gotten some nice twilight imaging (... Jun 19 2009, 12:53 AM

jamescanvin QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 19 2009, 01:53 AM) Th... Jun 19 2009, 07:57 AM

Stu QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 19 2009, 01:53 AM) Ye... Jun 19 2009, 05:19 AM

jamescanvin Movie of twilight at Gusev, taken over 23 minutes ... Jun 19 2009, 08:14 AM

Oersted Phobos and Deimos maybe? I seem to see two dots th... Jun 19 2009, 09:24 AM

fredk I think they're all hot pixels/CR's. Near... Jun 19 2009, 02:19 PM

Deimos These views are just right of sunset, a bit south ... Jun 19 2009, 03:28 PM

Stu Latest navcams ( http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/... Jun 23 2009, 08:50 PM

fredk Some pancams show a bright star (moon?) and a fain... Jun 24 2009, 12:54 AM

Stu Good catch Fred, definitely something there. Jun 24 2009, 06:53 AM

Astro0 Moon or spacecraft? (and by that I mean "one ... Jun 24 2009, 07:03 AM

djellison Phobos going into eclipse, I'd say. (Although... Jun 24 2009, 08:13 AM

fredk I'll go out on a limb and guess the bright obj... Jun 24 2009, 02:39 PM

mhoward Really cool stuff. FWIW the images in fredk's ... Jun 24 2009, 03:32 PM

Deimos The star is Canopus, which is not quite circumpola... Jun 24 2009, 09:06 PM

fredk I registered the 5 Venus-Earth pancam frames on Ve... Jun 24 2009, 10:46 PM

helvick Nice work there Fred, very nice. Jun 25 2009, 06:36 PM

Stu If that is Earth, you're my new hero Fred. Jun 25 2009, 06:54 PM

ilbasso I'm waiting for the MERs to start spamming eac... Jun 25 2009, 09:11 PM

SFJCody A nice update here. Jun 25 2009, 09:35 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (ilbasso @ Jun 25 2009, 03:11 PM) .... Jun 26 2009, 05:00 AM

Stu Do we have any confirmation yet that the two dots ... Jun 26 2009, 06:48 AM

Deimos Stu: Yes. And there are more images from this seri... Jun 26 2009, 12:06 PM

ElkGroveDan A bit more enhancement..... Jun 26 2009, 03:35 PM

fredk Thanks for that Dan! Amazing what the right s... Jun 26 2009, 03:50 PM

PDP8E WOW < speechless > Jun 27 2009, 03:00 AM

CosmicRocker Nice work, fredk; but would you mind redoing them ... Jun 27 2009, 05:57 AM

Fran Ontanaya Five recent navcams, averaged and blended using th... Jun 30 2009, 05:45 AM

Astro0 Thought I'd play around with an enhancement on... Jun 30 2009, 02:53 PM

climber Beautifull indeed! Do you know why it seams th... Jun 30 2009, 03:37 PM

ugordan Automatic contrast stretch, I'd say. Jun 30 2009, 05:33 PM

alan I believe the short streak on the right is Phobos.... Jul 1 2009, 02:14 AM

fredk I believe you're right. Animation of Phobos r... Jul 1 2009, 04:18 AM

nprev Great animation, Fred! It gave me another pos... Jul 1 2009, 04:53 AM

Astro0 fredk - fantastic animation. What I love are the c... Jul 1 2009, 09:54 AM

Deimos The streaks are just cosmic rays. Most CRs are sma... Jul 1 2009, 01:37 PM

Fran Ontanaya Is there any chance to bounce a radio signal on th... Jul 1 2009, 05:37 PM

helvick IIRC despite being much thinner at the ground Eart... Jul 1 2009, 07:00 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Deimos @ Jul 1 2009, 08:37 AM) ...... Jul 2 2009, 04:46 AM

Deimos Sometimes the science objective requires exposures... Jul 2 2009, 03:13 PM

nprev Okay, longest long-shot goofball night obs idea I ... Jul 3 2009, 02:08 AM

BrianL QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 2 2009, 08:08 PM) Okay... Jul 3 2009, 04:20 AM

lyford Since MRO has taken a few shots of Spirit, is it e... Jul 3 2009, 03:58 PM

Astro0 Here's a movie of the sunset on Sols 1940 and ... Jul 4 2009, 02:15 PM

imipak Well now, if we're talking goofball ideas... A... Jul 4 2009, 06:19 PM

fredk Here is another animation showing Earth sliding pa... Jul 7 2009, 12:23 AM

fredk And here's a labelled version showing Earth... Jul 7 2009, 12:27 AM

Deimos Airglow and discharges have been discussed a few t... Jul 7 2009, 02:44 PM

nprev QUOTE (Deimos @ Jul 7 2009, 07:44 AM) Tha... Jul 8 2009, 03:33 AM

climber Mark, regarding downlink as well as "20-70 Mb... Jul 7 2009, 03:34 PM

Deimos For image data, I've got 125 Gb from Spirit an... Jul 8 2009, 01:25 AM

Astro0 Deimos said: Although if anyone can make the sol 1... Jul 8 2009, 04:17 AM

Stu QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jul 8 2009, 05:17 AM) Of ... Jul 8 2009, 05:46 AM

CosmicRocker I see superres imagery coming down. Who'd hav... Jul 14 2009, 06:06 AM

RobertEB I am betting the dust devils create static dischar... Oct 2 2009, 02:01 PM

ElkGroveDan ....more importantly, do dust devils even blow at ... Oct 2 2009, 02:22 PM

Deimos Yes, the Sun plays a big role in dust devils. Orbi... Oct 2 2009, 03:33 PM

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