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[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

For those interested in vintage & new publications, flown hardware, autographs etc... Visit the collectSpace.com website ( a great resource + forum )
www.collectspace.com

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Some other UMSF-related resources

Lunar & Planetary globes:
http://www.androidworld.com/prod64.htm

Mars terrains & huge Mars globe
http://www.spacemodelsystems.com/

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Feel free to add-on folks

[Guest_DonPMitchell_*]

You can get the Moon, Venus and Mars globes at Sky & Telescope (for much cheaper than the other sites). I own the Mars and Venus globes, they're not bad, although NASA's false color map of Venus is fugly.

There is also a British company that makes professional-quality globes: Greeves & Thomas. They can make globes from 12" to 43" diameter, although the very large ones are as much as $15,000. They will do a custom globe from a latitude/longitude image. Yeah, expensive, but be sure to check out their site.

[Bob Shaw]

There is also a British company that makes professional-quality globes: Greeves & Thomas. They can make globes from 12" to 43" diameter, although the very large ones are as much as $15,000. They will do a custom globe from a latitude/longitude image. Yeah, expensive, but be sure to check out their site.

Don:

Greaves and Thomas also have the advantage of wild enthusiasm for globes in general, and a serious sense of humour - have a look at the company van!

Of particular interest to Soviet space researchers is their 'Maxwell-Pergamon' Lunar globe, based on an unissued early Soviet globe which was *meant* to have been distributed by the infamous Robert Maxwell.

They sell 'seconds' on eBay from time to time, where there's some slight flaw in a globe. These can be quite a lot cheaper.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/greavesandthomas/

Bob Shaw

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Mars panaromas:
http://www.moonpans.com/mars/

[Guest_DonPMitchell_*]

Mars panaromas:
http://www.moonpans.com/mars/

I have a few space pictures up in my house. I get any of the MER panoramas at huge size for free from NASA: Mars Rover Panoramas


Then send them to these guys to be printed and framed: American Frame.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Sure Don, photobox.co.uk is a similar service in Great Britain
Some questions:
1. At which size do You print those panoramas ?
( I have the Pathfinder/Sojouner panorama which is almost 3 feet long )
2. Any other good photo-services ?

[Guest_DonPMitchell_*]

Sure Don, photobox.co.uk is a similar service in Great Britain
Some questions:
1. At which size do You print those panoramas ?
( I have the Pathfinder/Sojouner panorama which is almost 3 feet long )
2. Any other good photo-services ?

Most of these industrial sized color printers expect 72 pixels per inch. I resize the images in something that can do a windowed-sinc filter, such as the Lanczos filter in ACDSee. Photoshop, for some odd reason, still only has a bicubic filter which is not nearly as good. I don't let the printers do the image resizing, because god knows what they would use.

I haven't looked around at photo services much. They all have one of the 3 or 4-foot wide HP or Epson inkjet printers, which are fine. Even the cheap ones you buy for home use are remarkably good these days.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Thanks for the update Don ... Photobox.co.uk uses FUJI photo-paper but I guess KODAK photo-paper is better ?

[ElkGroveDan]

I resize the images in something that can do a windowed-sinc filter, such as the Lanczos filter in ACDSee. Photoshop, for some odd reason, still only has a bicubic filter which is not nearly as good.

There are Photoshop plugins available. Here's one that works pretty well -- supposedly based on the the same process as the Lanczos filter.

http://photoshop.pluginsworld.com/plugin.p...shop&plugin=188

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Looks like they also started to make 'terrain models' of the other planets & moons

http://www.spacemodelsystems.com/terrains.html

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Some nice 'floating' globes ... yes they have Mars
http://www.ledindon.com/objet-cadeau-solaire-nature/7111.php