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Re: Lunar Flyby

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Post by tharkun__ »

dylan604 wrote: post #32
_august wrote: post #4

Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low. Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=...

The external shots seem to just be from the GoPro strapped to a solar panel. Didn't seen anything that looked like the shots from the Nikons onboard. Was hoping for a couple, but I know I'm just being greedy wanting all the pics edit: exif data shows some are from a Nikon. I just want to see them all!!! My greedy line still plays

Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such.

Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted.

I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to scroll around in/zoom out on!

Re: Lunar Flyby

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Post by nsim »

What is the licence on these images? I can't seen anything on the site or in the HTML.

I've been waiting for a new Earth Rise/Set shot (which is thankfully at least 5568x3712px from a NIKON D5).

Edit: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/

> You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#123

Post by dylan604 »

tharkun__ wrote: post #121
dylan604 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The external shots seem to just be from the GoPro strapped to a solar panel. Didn't seen anything that looked like the shots from the Nikons onboard. Was hoping for a couple, but I know I'm just being greedy wanting all the pics edit: exif data shows some are from a Nikon. I just want to see them all!!! My greedy line still plays

Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to…

They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#124

Post by LooseMarmoset »

icegreentea2 wrote: post #101
thegrim33 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> is exactly why the US is stuck with SpaceX For the last 20 years NASA has intentionally run their Commercial Crew Program, which has the stated goal of developing/fostering/funding the development of commercial providers for launch vehicles. They, by plan they explicitly laid out and implemented, decided to rely on American commercial providers. And that's what they got. And in doing so, the program ended up produ…

SpaceX is an amazing success story, both as a commercial story, and as a story of government-industry cooperation. NASA should be proud and commended for fostering SpaceX. The question is why does SpaceX stand alone? Why did ULA stagnate? Why can't NG make SRBs that don't have nozzles that fall off? Why can't Betchel build a launch tower on time? What is it about government contracts in these other areas that led to…

Big space stagnated because they could. Their friends in Congress directed them lots of money and lots of political cover, and they both profited handsomely. Why would they change? They never had so, and I might argue that they still don't. Cost-plus contracts, years spent in expensive consulting and planning, all these mean they make money whether they go to space or not. Every five or six years, they trot out a "new" plan that purports to solve all the problems of the old plan, with exciting presentations and hired speakers, and the then-current administration sees a way to drum up political support, and the lobbyists and Congress see a way to make even more money and political favors.

And now it's over 50 years since we last landed on the Moon.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#126

Post by dylan604 »

zamadatix wrote: post #95
dylan604 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We haven't even seen the full quality images yet. They've commented that the live feed from the GoPro is a limited bandwidth because they have to share the bandwidth with running the capsule. The images from the Nikons onboard are just scaled down. My initial guess was from an export specifically to get an early dump to get everyone on the ground chomping at the bit something to see. They'll get the full images when…

I wouldn't mind some raw files but I honestly don't think they'll be too strikingly different than these (make sure you're looking at the full 20 MP images which should be several MB, not the 2 MP previews at ~200 KB).

I don't know what the Lightroom* skillz of the astronauts are, but I would not be surprised if they were shooting RAW+JPEG and only processed the JPGs in Lightroom. They probably had presets to export to smaller images that was created months ago and loaded onto their PCDs. I'd imagine 4 humans in a tincan have more things to do than to be developing RAW images by digging out the details in the shadows, push the exposure and pull back the highlights, and then apply all of those settings to each sequence of images. They'll let the folks on the ground do that.

* The exif data has Adobe Lightroom Classic (Windows) metadata in it.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#127

Post by modeless »

_august wrote: post #4

Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low. Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=...

Thanks, these make some kickass ultrawide wallpapers.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#128

Post by modeless »

nsim wrote: post #122

What is the licence on these images? I can't seen anything on the site or in the HTML. I've been waiting for a new Earth Rise/Set shot (which is thankfully at least 5568x3712px from a NIKON D5). Edit: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/ > You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and…

Works of the US government are not copyrighted.

Re: Lunar Flyby

#129

Post by cruffle_duffle »

dylan604 wrote: post #123
tharkun__ wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to…

They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.

Coming soon to the moon near you: starlink!
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