[X] My Assistant

[Stu]

There have been so many times that I've finished colourising or messing about with an image, only to wonder just where I should post it, that I thought I'd start a new topic here, kind of a "Vision On" gallery (that'll mean nothing to non-UK members, sorry!) where people can just post "general" images they've been working on, for everyone to see. I hope that's okay, Mods? If not, feel free to slap my wrist and move/change it.

Anyway, to kick things off...



( Crop from PSP_002722_1665 )

[edstrick]

I've sent the file to vk3ukf, so he can post it.

That file has been TRAPPED on a failed hard drive for 5 years. It would spin and was barely accessible with read errors and long system-wait times. It took Media Tool Professional 13 DAYS to reverse clone the 80 gig drive to a spare drive so I could then do file-recovery on the readible sectors. I apparently recovered everything I needed, including family photo scans that had been done 2 years before the drive got sick and were <duh> nowhere backed up.

I've attached most of the closest approach frames, skipping 0064 (previously posted) and two at the beginning and one at the end of this sequence where things had stopped changing fast. You can see a vague albedo feature across the nucleus at low phase, and that cleft/vally/gash across the nucleus (cut off at the bottom of the frame) in 0063. Early and late in the sequence, at high phase angles, the jets off the sun-facing lobe of the nucleus wash everything else out and increasingly obscure the nucleus, so the tail-ward lobe of the nucleus sort of materializes as the spacecraft approaches and starts to swing around to the dayside, then disappears back into the murk on flyout. (Those frames are in the animated gif but not posted here)

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