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[Shaka]

You need an animation?
I've what you want

Indeed you do, Psukie! Tres cool, merci. Now if you can convert it to anaglyph form, you can sell tickets for a 3D thrill ride.

[Guest_Oersted_*]

You need an animation?
I've what you want

Victoria Approach from Sol 792 to Sol 813 (1,36 Mo) - Images Dilo

Excellent excellent stuff - you can rerally see that we are approaching. it will be great when we get a much longer movie of the whole approach to VC, not just these early steps.

[dilo]

Dilo, could you add images at the beginning of the animation from earlier sols.

Thanks for the GIF, Ant103!

[dilo]

With a good eye we can already see a little more detail on the beacon's form:

This is a enhanced version from Sol816 right cam, where I made an attempt to remove jpeg artifact and noise, obviously this impact on resolution but I think this is the best compromise...

[Ant103]

Thanks for your comments.

With the three first pictures of the approach, I have complete the gif animation. Now, we have the whole approach of VC :

Victoria approach from Sol 785 to Sol 813 - Original data Dilo (2Mo)

[ustrax]

This is a enhanced version from Sol816 right cam, where I made an attempt to remove jpeg artifact and noise, obviously this impact on resolution but I think this is the best compromise...

dilo, I've picked up your enhanced version and blow it...
It may be a mistake but it looks like there are other bright features surrounding the main beacon:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/beacon.jpg

I've given some temporary names to the features just for easier reference.
As the word beacon appeared I remember the alexandrian one, so, the names presented here are related to that wonder of the ancient world.

[Tesheiner]

Thanks for the GIF, Ant103!

VC identification at least on sol 780.
That's more then three weeks ahead of the MER project's "initial confirmation" on sol 804.

Kudos, Dilo!

[ustrax]

I grabbed this good old CorelDraw zoom tool and got a bit more detail, I guess...

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/beacon2.jpg

[Tesheiner]

Going back again to the "beacon"'s position at the near/far rim, here is what I've got measuring some headings.

This vertical view displays the headings to the Corner Crater and to the beacon (*) both on sol 800 and on sol 816.
(*) Assumed to be on the far rim.



For sol 800:
- Corner Crater @ 160.6º
- Beacon (far rim) @ 151.2º

For sol 816:
- Corner Crater @ 160.2º
- Beacon (far rim) @ 149.6º
- Beacon (near rim) @ 148.8º

Depending on the beacon's position, the angular separation would change from the 9.4º on sol 800 to either 10.6º or 11.4º on sol 816; there is a little but measureable difference on them and it should be noted on the pancams.

And here is the results. I did a manual stitching of the pancam pics and tried to annotate the "theoretical" heading separations. The topmost mosaic is from sol 800, while the bottom is from sol 816. The beacon's heading is, imho, consistent with a near rim location.

[djellison]

fwiw - I've done an 'ask' on the unannotated version of that newer, shockingly good Victoria MOC image, but no luck I'm afraid.

Doug

[Ant103]

Tesheiner : where do you have obtain this hi-res image of Victoria? I want it!

[Guest_Myran_*]

Thank you again Tesheiner for your excellent work, and yes I appreciated that new view of Victoria too.

And about this im not certain, have anyone mentioned where the halfway point from Erebus to Victoria might be?

[Tesheiner]

Tesheiner : where do you have obtain this hi-res image of Victoria? I want it!

That's the annotated picture from the last press release related to imaging VC. It have been discussed here already about the source (raw image) of that picture. Look for previous posts on this thread or on Victoria features one.

[Ant103]

Yes, I've just see it. The resolution is very good. Exist it a version without label and text?

[Shaka]

God, if you guys had been with Columbus on the Santa Maria, you would have spotted Miami Beach a week out of Portugal!