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Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by evolve2k »

neardeaf wrote: post #36
joecot wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been very much hoping that Apollo and the rest just pivot to being amazing Lemmy/kbin clients, with multiple instances pre-configured to use. That would be the biggest coup of all. Which is exactly what I thought had happened when I saw a title of "Apollo Remastered". 'Oh, you're going to price us all out? You don't care about third party client users? That's fine, I guess you won't care if hundreds of thousands…

Same here, I clicked on the link so fast So far I really like lemmy/Kbin, but the content and mobile apps I sorely miss quality-wise.

A project 'tafkars' (The Api Formerly Known As..), pronounced 'tuff cars', has started that's designed to be a proxy for the reddit api that can be tied into lemmy etc. The idea being that all existing apps that rely on the reddit api can be redirected.

They are looking for contributors, either folks who know Rust or otherwise just happy to do some legwork sniffing around the reddit api.

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/issues/1

Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by sponaugle »

TylerE wrote: post #39
sponaugle wrote: post #25

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From that site: "The raw output from the digital scan of a 70mm Hasselblad frame, is a huge 1.3GB, 16-bit TIFF file. At approximately 11,000 pixels square, a single image would require a 12-foot x 12-foot computer monitor to display the whole image at standard resolution. " The Flikr images must be jpg conversions of the original TIFFs, certainly in an attempt to reduce file sizes. I'm not sure where the 11,000 comes…

11,000 pixels / 72DPI = 152 inches = 12' 6". Math checks out.

Yep! I wonder if it is possible to get the original TIFF files from NASA?

Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by archerx »

throw0101b wrote: post #21
contrarian1234 wrote: post #8

Well it's a thinly veiled ad... and you can't really easily get digital copies - which somehow feels weird/wrong for space stuff. You typically can get that in full resolution directly from NASA. Is the web interface representative of the final quality? Just looking at an example: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/as15-82-11056-to-110... Even mildly zoomed in the image looks quite crummy and blurry. Fine for a…

> Well it's a thinly veiled ad... Jason Kottke has been curating links on the inter-tubes for twenty-five years (1998). He simply links to stuff he thinks other will find cool: the fact that some of those items are purchasable does not mean the post is an ad. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kottke His posts on the Apollo program go back to 2005: * https://kottke.org/tag/Apollo/3 Here's another post on a book yo…

The intention of the post is to get people to buy photos/book (with a convenient amazon affiliate link) that should be free and in the public domain so yes, it is an ad.

Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by joshstrange »

joecot wrote: post #13
nivekney wrote: post #7

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oh they are finally replacing the reddit backend with their own!? nope it's the moon.

I've been very much hoping that Apollo and the rest just pivot to being amazing Lemmy/kbin clients, with multiple instances pre-configured to use. That would be the biggest coup of all. Which is exactly what I thought had happened when I saw a title of "Apollo Remastered". 'Oh, you're going to price us all out? You don't care about third party client users? That's fine, I guess you won't care if hundreds of thousands…

A moon shot if you will…

But yeah, I’d love for Apollo to do what some Twitter clients did switching to mastodon, it would make my transition off Reddit so much easier and nicer.

Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by netsharc »

sponaugle wrote: post #42
TylerE wrote: post #39

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11,000 pixels / 72DPI = 152 inches = 12' 6". Math checks out.

Yep! I wonder if it is possible to get the original TIFF files from NASA?

I've commented[1] above that the high-res scans were done by ASU, for example the cover of the book is this scan: http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/9/Hasselblad%205...

And on that page there's a download button for several version, with the raw image (the link has a .TIF extension) being 1.3 GB big...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36333601

Re: Apollo Remastered

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Post by creativenolo »

netsharc wrote: post #29
dabluecaboose wrote: post #22

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I had written this comment almost verbatim before getting distracted at work. There's gotta be some public-facing way to access these images. NASA wouldn't just let any jabroni access these highly guarded films to sell them, they have to have gotten something out of it for them (and by extension the public) EDIT: Clarifying since it sounded like I was calling the guy a jabroni, didn't intend that

This shop where I got my copy from is still selling them for 46 Euro a pop: https://www.buecher.de/shop/raumfahrt/apollo-remastered/saun... I bought it after reading The Guardian's excerpt with a lot of great pictures: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/26/apollo-space... > Digital scans of the transparencies are often underexposed and difficult to process. The images shown here are derived from new, high-r…

Do you know what the crosses in the images are?
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