Phil Stooke's lunar panoramas at TPS |
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Phil Stooke's lunar panoramas at TPS |
 Feb 14 2007, 10:39 AM
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http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000856/
(If this is already somewhere else on this forum please excuse and delete.) |
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Feb 14 2007, 03:51 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Congratulations Phil. These are stunning. Having taken on some tedious Photoshop projects in the past (but nothing to this extent), I can appreciate the amount of work that went into these. Just amazing.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 14 2007, 05:14 PM
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Gorgeous! I love those.
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Feb 14 2007, 05:18 PM
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A job well done Phil. Absolutely beautiful and (easy for me to say) well worth the effort!
-------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Feb 14 2007, 05:21 PM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I thought it'd be worthwhile to post a link to the old thread where Phil discussed his work with the Surveyor pans. I especially like this post from February of last year with a partially cleaned Surveyor 6 pan.
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 14 2007, 06:12 PM
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These pan cleanups are great. Really brings back memories..... I was in my early teens back then. No human had walked there as yet.
I truly believe that the Moon is our real stepping stone to the future of human civilizations off Earth. There we will learn how to live as citizens of space. Thanks Phil for these and thanks Emily for placing these in TPS. Beautiful work .. Craig |
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 Feb 14 2007, 06:19 PM
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Superb panoramas !
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Feb 14 2007, 06:59 PM
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Take a bow Phil!
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Feb 14 2007, 07:18 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks for the nice comments. But wait until you see what I'm working on now!
One thing Emily didn't get into - it's not easy to actually find these raw pans in the first place. You can google all you like. Because they don't look great they were not published outside the technical literature or in any form you can use for this kind of work. The one real exception is the NASA book 'Atlas of Surveyor 5 Television Data'. I had to visit the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, the Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson and the U. S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff just to find suitable materials to scan. Nobody had a complete set of anything. But between the three places I found one pan from each site and some other materials not shown here - there is a nice morning pan from Surveyor 1, for instance. Oh well, gotta go - my boss wants me to do some - shudder - Workus McGurkus. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 1 2007, 10:23 AM
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Phil
I just want to add my thanks and appreciation for those wonderful cleaned-up Surveyor pans, which I avidly followed in old National Geographic magazines. I knew it was do-able but I don't have the skills myself. I'll use them in my talks about early lunar exploration to Science Festivals, astronomy societies etc, if I may Kenny |
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Mar 1 2007, 02:46 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Kenny - and anybody else - you are free to use my pans in any presentation or publication. I regard them as being in the public domain, as were the originals. Just give me a credit.
Phil Stooke -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 9 2007, 07:22 PM
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Did I ever post this one? I don't think so. It shows what a full resolution Surveyor pan would look like. This is the northern horizon seen from Surveyor 7. This was assembled from individual frames scanned from hardcopy at LPI.
Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 9 2007, 07:27 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Wow--that crater on the horizon is really cool. Thanks for this, Phil.
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Mar 9 2007, 08:58 PM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Man...Phil...You give us so much!
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 10 2007, 04:53 AM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 9 2007, 01:22 PM)  Did I ever post this one? I don't think so. It shows what a full resolution Surveyor pan would look like. This is the northern horizon seen from Surveyor 7. This was assembled from individual frames scanned from hardcopy at LPI. I seem to recall that you had posted a portion of a Surveyor VII pan that you had cleaned up. You may not have posted this one, though. Emily, I don't think it's really a crater rim we're looking at in the distance -- the entire terrain is really pretty chaotic, and I think these are really ridges that are arrayed radially to Tycho. However, as chaotic as this terrain is, I'm struck by how *soft* most of the terrain really is. There are a lot of locations in this panorama alone that would be quite suitably flat landing sites for a LM (or some other type of landing module), and the local slopes aren't, for the most part, any greater than what the J-mission Apollo crews worked on with relatively little difficulty. I wish they had actually tried a J mission to this location. Would have been the most spectacular site ever! -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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