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Janus And Epimetheus Animation, in front of a nice starfield

Tman View Member Profile	Dec 14 2005, 10:29 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	On November 29, 2005, Cassini shot a nice sequence from an "encounter" of Janus and Epimetheus. In this sequence also appear few stars - two brighter and three quite faint. But first I was only stumbled across one of the brighter in this GIF animation: http://www.greuti.ch/cassini/fb_epimetheus_n00043503-36.gif (large file (1,4 MB)) Tilmann was able to identify this spot as UCAC2-30620769 (or HD 217167) So it was easy to find a picture of the starfield where the two moons of Saturn were in front of at this time - and to make a nice (fictive) animation with the cutted moons: (500 KB) http://www.greuti.ch/cassini/epimetheus_janus_starfield.gif To show how exact the orientation could be, additionally two images that show the position of the visible stars in the Cassini pictures at the beginning and at the end of the GIF animation (each time the entire picture/frame of Cassini overlay (30% transparent) the picture of the starfield): http://www.greuti.ch/cassini/epimetheus_ja...eld_marked2.jpg http://www.greuti.ch/cassini/epimetheus_ja...ield_marked.jpg Nico (SigurRosFan) still made a nice picture of it with some labeled features of the starfield: -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

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Tman Janus And Epimetheus Animation Dec 14 2005, 10:29 AM

elakdawalla WOW, that is really cool work! Dec 14 2005, 03:05 PM

SigurRosFan QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 14 2005, 04:05 PM) W... Dec 15 2005, 11:37 AM

elakdawalla I'm getting broken links when I try to view th... Dec 14 2005, 06:57 PM

Tman Sadly, my webhost is completely down at the moment... Dec 14 2005, 08:23 PM

elakdawalla QUOTE (Tman @ Dec 14 2005, 12:23 PM)Sadly, my... Dec 14 2005, 08:27 PM

Tman gladly Dec 14 2005, 08:30 PM

Tman (I have to add) One thing is probably missing in t... Dec 14 2005, 09:56 PM

elakdawalla I showed this to a couple of Official People in JP... Dec 15 2005, 02:49 AM

SigurRosFan A new (bigger) version. Enjoy it! Small galax... Dec 15 2005, 05:06 PM

antoniseb QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Dec 15 2005, 12:06 PM)A ... Dec 27 2005, 01:34 PM

Tman Inspired by Nico's improvements I tried a new ... Dec 22 2005, 11:01 AM

Tman Is there a possibility to show Janus and Epimetheu... Dec 27 2005, 12:57 PM

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