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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby
by Canopus56 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

> This really was fun, what's next? - Howard Comet Lulin is up there but currently the Moon is transiting its RA-Dec. I'm waiting for a weather break. (Also my Christmas small scope is going back in for an exchange replacement.) For Patrick. What are the imaging particulars - aperture, scope type, effective focal length and camera? - Kurt

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby
by Canopus56 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Thanks Howard.

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NASA TV 4pm Today Mars Rover 5th Anniversary Broadcast
by Canopus56 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

4pm MST (6pm EST, 23UT) 15 Jan 2009 (Thursday) 6 p.m. - NASA Celebrates Mars Exploration Rovers 5th Anniversary - JPL (All Channels) http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby
by Canopus56 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

> Kurt that image is done! I sent it to Patrick so maybe he'll post it on his website soon,<snip> Howard I'd appreciate a copy. - Kurt

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Stardust movie in AIP4WIN
by Canopus56 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Jerry Foote wrote: > I used a video capture program (Snagit) to capture the movie window. The > resultant .avi file seemed to have a better quality than the file saved > under the AIP4WIN movie "Save as AVI" That was the problem I had with it. Whatever AVI codec AIP4WIN latches onto does seem to make a useable AVI file. There were weird color errors in it. - Kurt

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Stardust movie in AIP4WIN
by Jerry Foote 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

To make a movie of Patrick's Stardust images in AIP4WIN: 1. Use the multi-image tool Multi-Image/Auto-Process/Deep Sky and select the images. 2. Select under Process Type "Individual Files" 3. Select under Save Files as Type "JPEG" 4. Select a destination Directory 5. Click OK and then select "Lossless" 6. This will convert all of the files you selected to JPEG format. To make the movie: 1. Select Files/Movie 2. Add the list of files that have been converted to .jpg format 3. Process the list 4. Play the movie using the controls in this box. I used a video capture program (Snagit) to capture the movie window. The resultant .avi file seemed to have a better quality than the file saved under the AIP4WIN movie "Save as AVI" This file is ~32M. Jerry Foote ScopeCraft, Inc. 4175 E. Red Cliffs Dr. Kanab, UT 84741 435-899-1255 jfoote(a)scopecraft.com

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Stardust Flyby on youtube
by Howard Jackman 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Here's the video I made using all of Patricks images, it's on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4dAZI0Of2E Nice job Patrick!!

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Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby
by Canopus56 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Patrick, Directory http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/StardustN2009/ contains an animated gif (8megs) and avi (13megs) of your odd folder images, minimal brightness correction. A ting animated gif (326kb) is also available - http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/StardustN2009/ODD… If you want to keep and use them, please pull them reposting. I'd like to recover the network space. Good imaging. Happy Hunting, Kurt

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Stardust bus spacecraft - Earth flyby 1-14-09 7pm
by Canopus56 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

NASA's Stardust spacecraft with streak by the Earth tonight in a gravity assist pass at between 420,000-300,000km. I have low reliability report it may be mag 10. Empheris below. -I'm not planning on chasing this one myself, but here are the numbers. - Kurt http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/main/index.html Date Time Moon_up RA DEC Alt Az Dist kilometers Const 2009-Jan-14 02:00 05 49 19.94 +36 03 32.7 77.4 46.8 4.2E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 03:00 05 48 33.38 +36 17 17.2 84.7 58.3 4.0E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 04:00 m 05 47 30.82 +36 31 24.6 93.9 69.9 3.7E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 05:00 m 05 46 12.51 +36 45 40.7 114.4 81.3 3.5E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 06:00 m 05 44 39.39 +36 59 54.5 231.1 84.2 3.3E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 07:00 m 05 42 53.10 +37 14 01.0 264.7 73.2 3.0E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 08:00 m 05 40 55.74 +37 28 04.5 275.4 61.5 2.8E+05 Aur 2009-Jan-14 09:00 m 05 38 49.72 +37 42 22.0 283.2 50.0 2.6E+05 Aur Ephemeris is from JPL Horizons http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi Settings Ephemeris Type [change] : OBSERVER Target Body [change] : Stardust (bus) Spacecraft (NExT) [-29] Observer Location [change] : Salt Lake City, UT ( 111°53'27.6''W, 40°45'23.0''N ) Time Span [change] : Start=2009-01-14 01:00 UT, Stop=2009-01-15, Step=1 h Table Settings [change] : QUANTITIES=1,4,20,29; range units=KM Display/Output [change] : default (formatted HTML)

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Timelapse OT
by Howard Jackman 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Sorry I need to correct the mileage not 300+ but 165 miles -sorry for the goof! Howard

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