Cassini "Kodak Moments" Options

[paxdan]

Looks like another Kodak Moment has just come down in the raws. Here are links to the Red Green and Blue images.

[Dyche Mullins]

Looks like another Kodak Moment has just come down in the raws. Here are links to the Red Green and Blue images.

I have lurked around this forum for a while and thought it might be time to contribute (a little) something.

[dilo]

Nice work, Dyche... look also to my version

[Dyche Mullins]

This probably doesn't qualify as a Kodak Moment but I had fun putting this old image together from the raw data.



I left the edges of the raw images hanging out as a registration test.

[dilo]

On Apr,28 Cassini taken some beautiful portraits of Epimetheus in front of A/B rings and Titan (already highlighted in another post).
Here below, I report a stitch of two clear-filter images taken in different time in order to have a panoramic view of the rings and a combination of RGB detail of Epimeteus (registration of all objects in the images is impossible due to strong shifts).

[Bob Shaw]

Here's a thought:

Galileo captured a few images of Saturn while in orbit around Jupiter; has Cassini captured any images of Jupiter while in orbit around Saturn?

Bob Shaw

[ugordan]

Cassini snapped a couple of images through the blue filter before SOI, in May 2004:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=13385
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=13384

Nothing spectacular, I don't know it they were overexposed on purpose or by the raw image histogram stretching function.
This is about the time the earliest posted raw images date back, so that's about the most recent stuff there is.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

This is too much ... this is really too much !
( 'famous' sentence from the Voyager era ... )

We're really lucky to be around in this era of solar system exploration, although I would like to view ahead for a century

[ugordan]

A rare color image on the CICLOPS site as image of the day. Showing Titan behind the rings : Titan on the Side

This obviously required a bit of Photoshopping because of the motion between exposures.
It's notable how the rings have a uniform coloring to them when there's a moon in the scene. When we have the classic Saturn & rings shots, the rings turn out all colorful (even distinctly blue) and neat and stuff, but the moons also turn out blue as a consequence. Obviously one of the two different portrayals is wrong - my guess is the latter one, going for the PR impact instead of realism.
This shot definitely looks more realistic to me, if less awe-inspiring.

Some examples of the rings with a moon present:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1818
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1590
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1527 (stretched color)
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1466
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1007

Compare those for example to this:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=722
Admittedly, this one does look more like the real thing, though.

Sheesh, am I bored on my job or what?

[paxdan]

Sheesh, am I bored on my job or what?

*snort* if you're that bored perhaps you could help me figure out if there have been any images of a moon-shadow on the rings. I've followed cassini quite closely and don't recall any. Would there be any rational for taking such an image if the geometary was favourable?

[ugordan]

*snort* if you're that bored perhaps you could help me figure out if there have been any images of a moon-shadow on the rings. I've followed cassini quite closely and don't recall any. Would there be any rational for taking such an image if the geometary was favourable?

Currently, the lighting geometry at the Saturnian system is such that no moon can cast a shadow upond the rings there. Practically all the moons (w/ exception of Iapetus and far-out Phoebe) are in equatorial orbits, their inclination is negligible. The season is something like late summer for the southern hemispheres and the equinox is just too far into the future for Sun's angle to be right for shadows of that sort. We'll have to wait a couple of years more for that to happen. Even then, the shadows will be very oblique and elongated, because of the equinox and the fact no moon rises significantly above the ring plane.

[Jyril]

Hubble imaged Saturn during the latest solar ring plane crossing and imaged Dione casting its shadow on the rings (see the image here).

[ugordan]

A very high phase sequence of Titan passing in front of the rings has appeared on the raw site:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=77062
The above image also shows one of the small moons, dimly lit by saturnshine, seen here "touching" Titan's haze.

[SigurRosFan]

The small moon is known as ...?

Rings behind Titan's Crescent:

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[pat]

The small moon is known as ...?

Rings behind Titan's Crescent:

Actually these high phase mutual event images show Titan occulting Janus and then Epimetheus.

N00062231.jpg through N00062240.jpg are Janus and N00062241.jpg through N00062243.jpg Epimetheus.