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800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas
djellison
post Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM
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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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post Jun 30 2009, 02:53 PM
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Thought I'd play around with an enhancement on the sunset images from Sol1940.
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20sec movie sequence....Attached File  Spirit_Sunset.wmv ( 872.77K ) Number of downloads: 3709


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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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