Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby
Impressive imaging capture. "The overall length of the main bus is 1.7 meters, about the size of an average office desk." You imaged at 5UT at 35,000km. http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_details.html Think I'll draw my blinds a little closer at night. -:) Kurt P.S. Does anyone have multi-image merge in their image processing software? I'd like to make a combination of the images showing the track. API4WIN has image merge (aA+bB+c) for two images but no way to automatically sequentially merge across 37 images. Simply summing the images does not quite cut it. The spacecraft becomes too faint as the background noise is summed. - K
I might give it a try in Photoshop, I'm still working on the movie right now, seems that the FITs are being grouchy about converting to jpeg. I've only got about half converted. I'll give the staking a shot after that. You were thinking about a star field with a trail of dots right? Howard --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby To: "Utah Astronomy List Serv" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:51 PM Impressive imaging capture. "The overall length of the main bus is 1.7 meters, about the size of an average office desk." You imaged at 5UT at 35,000km. http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_details.html Think I'll draw my blinds a little closer at night. -:) Kurt
P.S. Does anyone have multi-image merge in their image processing software? I'd like to make a combination of the images showing the track. API4WIN has image merge (aA+bB+c) for two images but no way to automatically sequentially merge across 37 images. Simply summing the images does not quite cut it. The spacecraft becomes too faint as the background noise is summed. - K
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Hi Howard, I saw your message and got to wondering if maybe others would like to work with JPG. So I used Graphic Converter to convert all of the odd numbered images to JPG. I just posted them to: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/jpg.zip BTW, I heard from NASA this evening that the movie Kurt put together may go on their website tomorrow. patrick On 14 Jan 2009, at 23:05, Howard Jackman wrote:
I might give it a try in Photoshop, I'm still working on the movie right now, seems that the FITs are being grouchy about converting to jpeg. I've only got about half converted. I'll give the staking a shot after that. You were thinking about a star field with a trail of dots right?
Howard
Ah man!! After all that work I just did converting them, I should procrastinate more often! I have a video for you if you want it it's a WMV sorry! it's 3.5mb 640x480 so bigger than the animated GIF I think. Let me know if you want it sent to you as an attachment. I'm trying to figure out how to post it on youtube as I've never posted anyhing there before. I'm up so drop me a line! Howard: sumoetx at yahoo.com --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Another movie from P Wiggins StarDust Bus flyby To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 11:25 PM Hi Howard,
I saw your message and got to wondering if maybe others would like to work with JPG.
So I used Graphic Converter to convert all of the odd numbered images to JPG. I just posted them to:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/jpg.zip
BTW, I heard from NASA this evening that the movie Kurt put together may go on their website tomorrow.
patrick
On 14 Jan 2009, at 23:05, Howard Jackman wrote:
I might give it a try in Photoshop, I'm still working on the movie right now, seems that the FITs are being grouchy about converting to jpeg. I've only got about half converted. I'll give the staking a shot after that. You were thinking about a star field with a trail of dots right?
Howard
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Sure, send me a copy. I'm redoing the darks and flats as I enter this. More later. patrick On 15 Jan 2009, at 02:10, Howard Jackman wrote:
Ah man!! After all that work I just did converting them, I should procrastinate more often!
I have a video for you if you want it it's a WMV sorry! it's 3.5mb 640x480 so bigger than the animated GIF I think. Let me know if you want it sent to you as an attachment. I'm trying to figure out how to post it on youtube as I've never posted anyhing there before. I'm up so drop me a line!
Hi Kurt, Your animation is now available on NASA's NExT mission website at: http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ega_images2.html Thanks for your help with this. Cheers, patrick On 14 Jan 2009, at 18:51, Canopus56 wrote:
Impressive imaging capture. "The overall length of the main bus is 1.7 meters, about the size of an average office desk." You imaged at 5UT at 35,000km. http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_details.html Think I'll draw my blinds a little closer at night. -:) Kurt
Man you guys did a great job. Way to work together. Patrick – you did the hard part. Nice job. Jim
Thanks Jim but all I did was point the scope where Kurt suggested and the computer did the rest while I sat back and watched TV. Kurt and Howard did all the grunt work assembling the images into something presentable. Carpe Noctem! patrick On 15 Jan 2009, at 17:36, Jim Gibson wrote:
Man you guys did a great job. Way to work together. Patrick – you did the hard part. Nice job.
Jim
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