Io
Io? ‘Yeah, whatever,’ you say:
The article last spring in Sky And Telescope that got me thinking about this whole webcam astronomy thing actually featured an image showing surface detail on Io. Surface detail on Io! I couldn’t believe it. The author used an 11″ scope (mine is 8″), and presumably more refined techinique, so it is not surprising that I have fallen shy of the mark. However, I have resolved a disk, and the coloring is approximately correct. I can’t presently explain the distorted shape of the disk, but I did calculate the image scale at something like 300 miles per pixel. (This seems suspiciously good, so I’ll have to sanity-check it at a more decent hour.)
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- Posted by Tim on Monday, March 8, 2004 at 12:54:20 am PST
- Category: Astronomy
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One Response to “Io”
C’mon, Tim. First you tell us you are meditating on things Intellivision, then you post a picture which is clearly a screen shot of an asteroid from some Atari 2600 simulator. “Io” as in “I owe you all an apology for trying to pull this fast one.”
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