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800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas

djellison View Member Profile	Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM Post #1
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	With Spirit producing an annoyingly large amount of power given her current predicament, the time may well have come to re-open the Gusev astronomy society. Anyone have any dusk / nightime observation ideas?

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Stu

Jun 6 2009, 07:59 PM

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Some number crunching on the Earth image... hopefully it won't be too "iffy"!

Ok, so at sunset Earth will be 28 degrees away from the Sun...

Earth will set approx 2 hours later...

(just wondering why Earth should be iffy..? It's not going to be an awful lot fainter than Venus..?)

Using an old version of STARRY NIGHT here so please, no scolding if this isn't 1000% accurate...

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djellison 800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM

Astro0 Thinking ahead... - A low sun angle view of the r... Jun 6 2009, 07:20 AM

Stu QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 6 2009, 08:20 AM) - P... Jun 6 2009, 10:01 AM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 6 2009, 12:01 PM) If my ... Jun 6 2009, 01:02 PM

James Sorenson I'm not sure if this would work, and is probab... Jun 6 2009, 08:40 AM

climber From my place (here on Earth) I'm able, with d... Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM

akuo An extended sunset movie would be nice with colour... Jun 6 2009, 10:38 AM

ngunn I'd like them to scan the dark sky at each end... Jun 6 2009, 11:28 AM

Stu Just for fun... this is inaccurate in countless (t... Jun 6 2009, 12:36 PM

SpaceListener I have already checked with the http://space.jpl.n... Jun 6 2009, 04:55 PM

nprev Still think it would be worth staring at appropria... Jun 6 2009, 05:10 PM

fredk I agree that recovering an orbiter would be very i... Jun 6 2009, 06:03 PM

nprev QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 6 2009, 11:03 AM) I ag... Jun 6 2009, 07:36 PM

Deimos Keep the ideas coming. Not surprisingly, many of t... Jun 6 2009, 07:44 PM

Stu Some number crunching on the Earth image... hopefu... Jun 6 2009, 07:59 PM

Fran Ontanaya Is there any chance of detecting triboluminescence... Jun 6 2009, 09:16 PM

akuo Would it be technically possible to track the Mart... Jun 7 2009, 03:47 PM

tasp The triboluminesence idea got me thinking, with th... Jun 7 2009, 08:22 PM

Fran Ontanaya http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/14jul_dust... Jun 7 2009, 09:13 PM

Oersted How fast can they take consecutive images? Would b... Jun 8 2009, 12:59 AM

Deimos QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 8 2009, 01:59 AM) Ho... Jun 8 2009, 01:40 PM

akuo QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 8 2009, 01:40 PM) No,... Jun 9 2009, 08:12 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 6 2009, 12:03 PM) ... ... Jun 8 2009, 05:54 AM

climber Please check this and tell me if you can see ... Jun 8 2009, 12:54 PM

djellison We've mentioned this many times before. Check... Jun 8 2009, 12:59 PM

Astro0 I'd be more interested in something that appea... Jun 8 2009, 01:00 PM

djellison A hot pixel with added pixel bleed? Jun 8 2009, 01:25 PM

ElkGroveDan I don't believe that hot pixels "bleed... Jun 8 2009, 01:31 PM

Deimos QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jun 8 2009, 02:31 PM... Jun 8 2009, 01:50 PM

Stu If I was Spirit I'd be keeping a close eye on ... Jun 8 2009, 01:33 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 8 2009, 08:40 AM) ...... Jun 8 2009, 02:27 PM

djellison MER CCD response is in this paper http://pancam.a... Jun 8 2009, 02:34 PM

Stu Playing about with STARRY NIGHT again just now I f... Jun 8 2009, 04:13 PM

fredk Stu, can you find out what our elongation from the... Jun 8 2009, 04:24 PM

Stu Then... ... and now... Jun 8 2009, 05:29 PM

fredk Thanks Stu. I get around 29 or 30 degrees elongat... Jun 8 2009, 05:59 PM

Deimos Dust opacity was actually higher then, but Earth w... Jun 8 2009, 06:33 PM

Stu Oh, just click away, you'll get something. It... Jun 8 2009, 06:51 PM

marswiggle I don't have any parameters at hand, but I sup... Jun 8 2009, 11:08 PM

Pertinax So much of the low and even middle hanging fruit h... Jun 9 2009, 01:47 AM

Deimos The MER PMA points much more precisely and accurat... Jun 9 2009, 03:34 PM

climber From Scott Twitter: Amazingly, we're planning ... Jun 17 2009, 08:39 PM

Stu Yep, time for another Gusev AS star party...! ... Jun 17 2009, 09:18 PM

Deimos Yes, we've gotten some nice twilight imaging (... Jun 19 2009, 12:53 AM

jamescanvin QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 19 2009, 01:53 AM) Th... Jun 19 2009, 07:57 AM

Stu QUOTE (Deimos @ Jun 19 2009, 01:53 AM) Ye... Jun 19 2009, 05:19 AM

jamescanvin Movie of twilight at Gusev, taken over 23 minutes ... Jun 19 2009, 08:14 AM

Oersted Phobos and Deimos maybe? I seem to see two dots th... Jun 19 2009, 09:24 AM

fredk I think they're all hot pixels/CR's. Near... Jun 19 2009, 02:19 PM

Deimos These views are just right of sunset, a bit south ... Jun 19 2009, 03:28 PM

Stu Latest navcams ( http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/... Jun 23 2009, 08:50 PM

fredk Some pancams show a bright star (moon?) and a fain... Jun 24 2009, 12:54 AM

Stu Good catch Fred, definitely something there. Jun 24 2009, 06:53 AM

Astro0 Moon or spacecraft? (and by that I mean "one ... Jun 24 2009, 07:03 AM

djellison Phobos going into eclipse, I'd say. (Although... Jun 24 2009, 08:13 AM

fredk I'll go out on a limb and guess the bright obj... Jun 24 2009, 02:39 PM

mhoward Really cool stuff. FWIW the images in fredk's ... Jun 24 2009, 03:32 PM

Deimos The star is Canopus, which is not quite circumpola... Jun 24 2009, 09:06 PM

fredk I registered the 5 Venus-Earth pancam frames on Ve... Jun 24 2009, 10:46 PM

helvick Nice work there Fred, very nice. Jun 25 2009, 06:36 PM

Stu If that is Earth, you're my new hero Fred. Jun 25 2009, 06:54 PM

ilbasso I'm waiting for the MERs to start spamming eac... Jun 25 2009, 09:11 PM

SFJCody A nice update here. Jun 25 2009, 09:35 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (ilbasso @ Jun 25 2009, 03:11 PM) .... Jun 26 2009, 05:00 AM

Stu Do we have any confirmation yet that the two dots ... Jun 26 2009, 06:48 AM

Deimos Stu: Yes. And there are more images from this seri... Jun 26 2009, 12:06 PM

ElkGroveDan A bit more enhancement..... Jun 26 2009, 03:35 PM

fredk Thanks for that Dan! Amazing what the right s... Jun 26 2009, 03:50 PM

PDP8E WOW < speechless > Jun 27 2009, 03:00 AM

CosmicRocker Nice work, fredk; but would you mind redoing them ... Jun 27 2009, 05:57 AM

Fran Ontanaya Five recent navcams, averaged and blended using th... Jun 30 2009, 05:45 AM

Astro0 Thought I'd play around with an enhancement on... Jun 30 2009, 02:53 PM

climber Beautifull indeed! Do you know why it seams th... Jun 30 2009, 03:37 PM

ugordan Automatic contrast stretch, I'd say. Jun 30 2009, 05:33 PM

alan I believe the short streak on the right is Phobos.... Jul 1 2009, 02:14 AM

fredk I believe you're right. Animation of Phobos r... Jul 1 2009, 04:18 AM

nprev Great animation, Fred! It gave me another pos... Jul 1 2009, 04:53 AM

Astro0 fredk - fantastic animation. What I love are the c... Jul 1 2009, 09:54 AM

Deimos The streaks are just cosmic rays. Most CRs are sma... Jul 1 2009, 01:37 PM

Fran Ontanaya Is there any chance to bounce a radio signal on th... Jul 1 2009, 05:37 PM

helvick IIRC despite being much thinner at the ground Eart... Jul 1 2009, 07:00 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Deimos @ Jul 1 2009, 08:37 AM) ...... Jul 2 2009, 04:46 AM

Deimos Sometimes the science objective requires exposures... Jul 2 2009, 03:13 PM

nprev Okay, longest long-shot goofball night obs idea I ... Jul 3 2009, 02:08 AM

BrianL QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 2 2009, 08:08 PM) Okay... Jul 3 2009, 04:20 AM

lyford Since MRO has taken a few shots of Spirit, is it e... Jul 3 2009, 03:58 PM

Astro0 Here's a movie of the sunset on Sols 1940 and ... Jul 4 2009, 02:15 PM

imipak Well now, if we're talking goofball ideas... A... Jul 4 2009, 06:19 PM

fredk Here is another animation showing Earth sliding pa... Jul 7 2009, 12:23 AM

fredk And here's a labelled version showing Earth... Jul 7 2009, 12:27 AM

Deimos Airglow and discharges have been discussed a few t... Jul 7 2009, 02:44 PM

nprev QUOTE (Deimos @ Jul 7 2009, 07:44 AM) Tha... Jul 8 2009, 03:33 AM

climber Mark, regarding downlink as well as "20-70 Mb... Jul 7 2009, 03:34 PM

Deimos For image data, I've got 125 Gb from Spirit an... Jul 8 2009, 01:25 AM

Astro0 Deimos said: Although if anyone can make the sol 1... Jul 8 2009, 04:17 AM

Stu QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jul 8 2009, 05:17 AM) Of ... Jul 8 2009, 05:46 AM

CosmicRocker I see superres imagery coming down. Who'd hav... Jul 14 2009, 06:06 AM

RobertEB I am betting the dust devils create static dischar... Oct 2 2009, 02:01 PM

ElkGroveDan ....more importantly, do dust devils even blow at ... Oct 2 2009, 02:22 PM

Deimos Yes, the Sun plays a big role in dust devils. Orbi... Oct 2 2009, 03:33 PM

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