roberts@iisat.uucp (Greg Roberts) (06/28/90)
A fair number of people have been asking me what some of the gifs are supposed
to be. Most are obvious, except for one. The one that most people seem to be
hung up on is the one that shows just a bright crescent of the earth, with
a bright dot in the upper left and two rectangles in the lower right.
This is sunrise in orbit, the shuttle not having crossed the terminator yet.
The two rectangles are the rear windows that overlook the cargo bay, lit from
inside. The camera was on the wrist of the RMS looking foreward. The dot is
actually the HST, from about 35 miles away. This was after the Discovery
backed away into a stationkeeping postion. Hope this clears up the puzzle.
Now, I am ready to do some more. I will be using a different machine this time,
and my first test of Neptune came out quite well. To cut down on the image
size, I thought I would edit them. The Neptune pics have the histograms and
white frame in them. Can they go, or do people want them left in. Also, in
some of the black area (sky), there is some noise, which translates to color,
and thus size. Would anyone be annoyed if it were painted out ? I will also
provide titles this time, but not expect anything too imaginative. I have a
nice shot of the rings I would like to do, so I would call it rings.gif (for
example).
Does anyone out there in net-land know if it is possible to use a better type
of storage medium other than video tape. I use a good brand, right out of the
wrapper, but it still doesn't match the original picture quality. Suggestions
would be appreciated.
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