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tedstryk
Yes, those are the images I reprocessed for my LPSC presentation.
tedstryk
Here are three of the main views.

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Here is the LPSC poster.

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....And the abstract.....

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2008/pdf/1362.pdf
tedstryk
Here are the Titania images.

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JRehling
Wonderful stuff. Especially like the Ariel work.
tedstryk
Dragons...now that would be a neat discovery!

Here is my guest blog about it that I wrote during the conference.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00001362/
tedstryk
Here is a view of Ariel transiting from Hubble.


elakdawalla
Cool. Are those two more moons to the left of Uranus? Where'd you get the data? Links, please! smile.gif

--Emily
tedstryk
The inner one definitely is. The outer one may be a moon and may be a star (I am basing this on image to image motion). I will add that these were taken using the ACS wide field camera. High Resolution Channel images were taken during the transit, but they all missed the planet.

These images are from a large set http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10805. The datasets involved are:
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Here are some other sets of HST Uranus data from the same time period (and some Neptune stuff as well, since some of the proposals were mixed). Also, there were a lot of WFPC/2 images taken last year, but those are still proprietary.

http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10870
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10534
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10473
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10502
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10170
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=10102
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...hst&id=9823
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...hst&id=9725
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...hst&id=9035
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...hst&id=9344






elakdawalla
Here's the Solar System Simulator view. Looks like the inner dot is Miranda; the outer one must be a star as there's no other moon that's close.

--Emily
volcanopele
Even including smaller moons, no moon matches the location of the outer dot. It would have to be exterior to Miranda (if in the ring plane).

tedstryk
I should also add that this was created using red-near IR filters, as there is no data available any "bluer" than red in this set.
tedstryk
Here is the Oberon sequence. It is hard to believe that this is the best sequence we have for Oberon, but it is.

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TritonAntares
QUOTE (tedstryk @ Apr 13 2008, 05:59 AM) *
Here is the Oberon sequence. It is hard to believe that this is the best sequence we have for Oberon, but it is.
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Sad to see, that this is the best of Oberon - but a reason why to get an orbiter around Uranus in not so far away future and hopefully in our lifetime.

Let me mention some visible structures (don't if they got names ?):
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There's a massive impact mid center of the Oberon disk, also visible are several rays connected with a second smaller impact more left.
All over the landscape white areas are visible - probably of the same type as on Iapetus trailing hemisphere ?
There's a huge mountain at the lower left rim of the disk, maybe the central peak of an impact structure, which I cannot detect for myself...

Bye.
tedstryk
Here is Tayfun Oner's map, which is labeled with some of the few names. http://www.solarviews.com/raw/uranus/obermap2.jpg

Also, comparison between these two images show that the peak on the limb is associated with a large basin. Also, there is a large basin next to Coriolanus on the terminator, which can be seen clearly in the distant image.

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scalbers
Here is my first Oberon map revision in nearly 3 years - thanks to the updated imagery from Ted Stryk. In addition to an earlier color image from Ted, the two largest ones are included from the new set:

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#OBERON

I think the other smaller images may cover much of the same territory, though it is hard to be sure.

That's the latest,

Steve
tedstryk
I posted a short blog entry on poor Umbriel.

http://planetimages.blogspot.com/2009/10/m...of-umbriel.html

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