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Cassini Stargazing?
jmknapp
post Oct 25 2005, 11:22 AM
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An activity several days ago had the narrow angle camera pointing to the Pleiades (RA 56.871, dec 24.449). What's that all about? Here's the science plan entry:

BEGIN_TIME: 183256204.182416 (2005 OCT 22 12:29:00 UTC)

END_TIME: 183289624.182419 (2005 OCT 22 21:46:00 UTC)

PRIMARY_POINTING: ISS_NAC to 56.871/24.449

REQUEST_ID: VIMS_017OT_PLEIADES001_PRIME

REQUEST_TITLE: Pleiades

REQ_DESCRIPTION: Turn to Pleiades; Time: 30 min

Pleiades: multiple cubes w/64x64 FOV IR @ 640 ms, VIS @ 40000 ms; Time: 7.0 hr 47 min; Volume: 86.5 Mbits; CompRatio: 2.0

Turn to waypoint: 30 min

Primary: -y to Pleiades; Secondary: +z to TBD

Not time critical.

RWA REQUIRED.

SECONDARY_POINTING: POS_X to NSP

SEQUENCE: S15

SUBSYSTEM: VIMS


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SigurRosFan
post May 29 2006, 02:41 PM
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There is another Deep Sky image online.

Gasgiant Saturn and supergiant Rigel:


- PIA08187: Help from Orion


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- jmknapp   Cassini Stargazing?   Oct 25 2005, 11:22 AM
- - ugordan   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Oct 25 2005, 01:22 PM)An act...   Oct 25 2005, 12:01 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 25 2005, 12:01 PM)Instru...   Oct 25 2005, 12:50 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Oct 25 2005, 02:50 P...   Oct 25 2005, 05:20 PM
- - volcanopele   Star clusters are great targets for calibration be...   Oct 25 2005, 05:47 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Oct 25 2005, 12:47 PM)St...   Oct 25 2005, 05:52 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 25 2005, 05:52 PM)Co...   Oct 25 2005, 08:20 PM
||- - jmknapp   I think this is one of the Pleiades images, but ca...   Oct 25 2005, 10:07 PM
|||- - pat   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Oct 25 2005, 11:07 PM)I thin...   Oct 26 2005, 06:39 PM
|||- - jmknapp   QUOTE (pat @ Oct 26 2005, 02:39 PM)nope, this...   Oct 26 2005, 07:37 PM
|||- - ljk4-1   gr-qc/0510105 [abs, ps, pdf, other] : Title: A c...   Oct 28 2005, 02:02 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 25 2005, 03:20 PM)Th...   Oct 26 2005, 11:56 AM
||- - odave   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 26 2005, 07:56 AM)We...   Oct 26 2005, 05:07 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 25 2005, 05:52 PM)Co...   Oct 26 2005, 01:22 PM
- - SigurRosFan   There is another Deep Sky image online. Gasgiant ...   May 29 2006, 02:41 PM

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