Image Sets  10 December, 2009 20:47

New Images From 10 December 2009 Added

09-344_20.18.09_VMC_Img_No_1.pngNew images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 10 December 2009. To access the images click the link below. Also you can access the Celestia file to see where the images were captured and access the raw data in the zip file (for more details see Help us with the VMC)

 

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Image Sets , Public Submissions  10 December, 2009 10:20

Mars in motion: webcam movies from the Red Planet

Doug Ellison, in Leicester, UK, is one of the founding tech folks at Unmannedspaceflight.com he has sent in several very cool movies that he created using VMC image sets. The top movie was generated from images acquired on 17 Oct 2008, and the bottom, from images taken on 20 Oct 2008.

Doug writes that to create the movie files, he took the raw data sets and processed them using the VMC2RGB utility (by Gordan Ugarkovic, download here). Then, in Photoshop, he applied a 'significant' saturation increase and adjustment of colour balance, followed by a slight sharpening, aligning consecutive frames and then exporting to .mov file.

Doug and several others are discussing and sharing more of their Mars Webcam image processing work in the VMC thread over at the Unmannedspaceflight.com forum. Thanks, Doug! -- Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rick Hollar Doug Ellison: Mars Limb Mosaic, 15th December 2010. I used ugordan's VMC2RGB app to convert the .raw VMC files into .png images. Then I used Photoshop to enhance the colour saturation and mosaic the frames. Image credits: Doug Ellison/ESA Files used to create panorama: 10-012_10.41.44_VMC_Img_No_2.raw, 10-012_10.46.08_VMC_Img_No_8.raw, 10-012_10.51.16_VMC_Img_No_15.raw, 10-012_10.54.56_VMC_Img_No_20.raw, 10-012_11.00.03_VMC_Img_No_27.raw, 10-012_11.03.44_VMC_Img_No_32.raw. I downloaded the original raw files from the ESA website and unpacked them to rgb.PNG files using vmc2rgb.exe (courtesy of Gordon Ugarkovic) combined with vmc_flat.raw for flat-fielding. The files were then processed using Adobe Photoshop CS4: I adjusted levels including red green and blue output to bring out the colour. Next curves and smart sharpening were applied to each file. The remaining unwanted artifacts were removed using the clone stamp tool and the healing brush. Finally, the mosaic was created using Photomerge. Image Credit: Errol Bruce/ESA Mars image in false colour created from two originals captured 10 October 2008. The originals were processed by Bogdan Stancescu, Bucharest, Romania. Bogdan writes: Image submitted by Mike Malaska, Chapell Hil, NC, USA. Mike writes: