You mock?Sparky wrote:uhhhh, specks of light.fosborn wrote:Whats the purpose? I don't know other than GaryN knows when something is so cool, it must be shared.by Sparky » Apr 30th, '11, 08:52
other than verifying that the stars can be seen from mars, what purpose do these images serve?![]()
Well, has it ever occurred to you to consider the use of Rover or Spirit, PanCam for astronomy on Mars ( not to me, not in a million years)? Even though all the calibrations are for day time use, the results are awesome!
This is a nice picture of Orion( it looked much better before I reduced it to post here).
Martian Astronomy! So cool. Thanks GN !
It sounds like the team controlling the program, has a true love and imagination for what they are doing. I love it when we tax payers, get the maximum amount of science possible for our dime!
http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ ... cts_2.html

Sorry, have you ever tried to take pictures of the stars with a ccd camera? I have a Fugifilm , FinePix S700, (I know, its the cheapest of that type of camera, I could get and still have some of the flexibility I wanted). Its pretty tough for me to get any decent pictures of stars with it. For them to get those shots on a 10 second exposure is awesome to me. But maybe I am too easily impressed.
But the next time your at the library and can go to the link, look at the pictures there. They look better than what I reduced and posted.
