New Horizons Pluto System Final Approach, 28 Jun-13 Jul 15 |
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 Jul 10 2015, 04:30 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 10 2015, 09:05 AM)  OMG YES and very timely! Thank you!!! You're welcome.  If I hit the right buttons, this should update twice a day:http://r.grythumn.org/~zarquon/nh/ I'll check to see if the midnight run happens. -Bob (I think I've got wget set to avoid downloading the sorted versions of the directory listing. Will check the logs on the next run.) |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:40 PM
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 IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Maps of Pluto and Charon updated with the new 2015-07-09 images obtained near 04:20. Longitude 0 is at the left edge of the maps.
The maps are rapidly getting better but there are still some areas from the images obtained on July 1 and 3 and they now suddenly look horribly low-res. The map of Charon still looks very crude. Pluto keeps getting more and more interesting. Some of the terrain that earlier seemed to be of intermediate and relatively uniform brightness now seems to be breaking up into a complex collection of light and dark spots/terrain. |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:46 PM
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Charon shows the same banding pattern as Pluto!
-------------------- www.astrosurf.com/nunes
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Jul 10 2015, 04:47 PM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Hooray! I used it to make this:
New Horizons Pluto Encounter Data It's been a looong time since I made one of these ADMIN NOTE: Added the link to the FAQ page. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 10 2015, 04:47 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
I loaded the July 9 image into DS9, log scaled and displayed using colors to represent brightness.
Any chance that the blue fringe is the atmosphere? |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:50 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
And here are new rotation movies of Pluto rendered using the maps I posted a few minutes ago.
First Pluto - the animated GIF I made was slightly too big to upload here so I made an AVI file 
pluto_rot_movie_20150709.avi ( 201.5K )
Number of downloads: 914And Charon:
In a way, Charon looks a bit similar to the Moon in this rotation movie. I think this will change once the resolution gets higher. |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:50 PM
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QUOTE (alk3997 @ Jul 10 2015, 02:00 PM) For those who might like to look for any 5-minute temporal changes, below is the first and last (third) 7/9 LORRI images. Only enhancement is a 2x enlargement. I don't see any changes between the two images (this time). For whatever it might be worth, my impression on viewing the product of the stereoscopic pair of images was that the 'whale' appears to be a deep depression with a bright spot at its bottom. It also appears to be fringed on the upper boundary by the ends of the light colored streaks, looking rather like eyelashes over an eye. These impressions could be illusory, of course. |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:51 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Alan: "Any chance that the blue fringe is the atmosphere?"
That's what JPG does around sharp edges in an image. 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 PD: 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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Jul 10 2015, 04:53 PM
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QUOTE (alan @ Jul 10 2015, 06:47 PM) Any chance that the blue fringe is the atmosphere? That would be scattered/diffracted light in the optics. -------------------- |
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Jul 10 2015, 04:54 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Bjorn, your maps are great. I am so glad you are doing this!
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 PD: 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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Jul 10 2015, 05:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Well that was fast, thanks phil and ugordon.
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Jul 10 2015, 05:28 PM
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Pluto, 09 July 04:18, x4.6.
Charon, 09 July 04:18, x4.6.
North is up. |
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Jul 10 2015, 05:41 PM
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-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Jul 10 2015, 05:47 PM
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Image processing can make you see the strangest of things...
 
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Jul 10 2015, 07:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
I wonder if they are reacting to images not seen yet?
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