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S_Walker
Thought this was beautiful coming down from the spacecraft this morning. The data was captured November 4, 2009 from 1.2 million kilometers. Anyone know which moon is at the right?

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ngunn
- and which shadow at the bottom left?
NickF
edit - see ugordon's post below!
ugordan
It's Rhea transiting and Tethys' shadow, apparently.
S_Walker
QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 6 2009, 10:54 AM) *
It's Rhea transiting and Tethys' shadow, apparently.


Thanks!
My rendition doesn't hold a candle to your processings- keep up the excellent work!
Juramike
False color view of same observation set processed to bring out atmospheric details:

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RGB[CB2 IRP90, MT2 IRP90, CL1 VIO] + a high-pass overlay of the MT2 IRP90 (storm clouds) image.

Cute tempest in N high latitudes.

-Mike
Juramike
And here's a zoom of the high latitude storm:

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(same stack as above, but an MT2 IRP90 darken layer was added at 40% opacity and hue/sat adjusted)
ugordan
QUOTE (S_Walker @ Nov 6 2009, 07:29 PM) *
My rendition doesn't hold a candle to your processings

Nonsense, just keep this stuff coming!
Juramike
New and improved* Methan-O-Vision of Saturn weighting heavily the Methane transmission filtered image.
(*finally figured how to get rid of the annoying blue background)

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"Secret" formula can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4084074245/
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