Wake up Rosetta!

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Trapezium Artist

Quote from: rogerg on August 06, 2014, 03:21:49 PM
So exciting!

http://rosetta.esa.int

Fun day for all of us, chaps: thanks for following  :)

And I managed to get Frost* into things in quite a different way today. Not in real-time on TV, but by a circuitous route, I've ended up being profiled as a Flickr photographer today, a mix of Rosetta stuff and my own photographic stuff, including a pic of the boys at Celebr8.2 (not .3), and a few words about them  :)

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/08/06/photographer-spotlight-mark-mccaughrean-senior-science-advisor-esa/

Enjoy (will write more later, but still have BBC, PBS, CBC, CNN interviews to do tonight  ::))

Mordwin

Nice work TA! (Rosetta as well as the photos ;))

sawtooth

I really enjoyed that read TA - a fascinating insight into what you do. Your'e a bloody talented bloke and living proof - if one were needed - that science and art can compliment each other perfectly.

Trapezium Artist

Quote from: sawtooth on August 06, 2014, 07:28:23 PM
I really enjoyed that read TA - a fascinating insight into what you do. Your'e a bloody talented bloke and living proof - if one were needed - that science and art can compliment each other perfectly.

Aww, shucks, man :-)

CNN International news at 21:45 CEST, 20:45 BST: watch a man wave his arms around while staring into a black lens one more time after a very long day, before he slides off for a beer with the team at the brewery around the corner here in Darmstadt.

Been a great day, but it's really just the start ...  ;)

gr8gonzo

That's amazing! Congratulations.  8)
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rogerg

Excellent interview!  What fun that was to read, and not humbly at all, to get to say (at least to myself), hey!  I kind of know that guy!

Seriously, very cool, man.

D S

Committed though TA is to this amazing project, some on the team appear to be permanently committed to it.   :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28684157
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MikeEvs

Nice article on flickr TA, a very interesting read and nice photos  :)

Trapezium Artist

Quote from: D S on August 07, 2014, 09:12:04 AM
Committed though TA is to this amazing project, some on the team appear to be permanently committed to it.   :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28684157

Yup, Matt waited until we had successful wake-up on 20 January, then went and had the tattoo made. It's by means his only one, mind you: most of the rest are a little less space science related  ;)

But for the slightly fainter of heart, we have made sheets of temporary tattoos showing various things about the mission, mostly from our cartoon "Rosetta & Philae" series (all on YouTube). One of them, however, is a miniature version of Matt's leg tattoo, so I expect you all to join in on landing day in November  8)

Trapezium Artist

Quote from: MikeEvs on August 07, 2014, 09:28:01 AM
Nice article on flickr TA, a very interesting read and nice photos  :)

Thanks, Mike, I appreciate the feedback. The origin of the connection with the Flickr blog team was Rosetta, of course, but it turned into one of these "meet the photographer" posts which left me slightly floundering to answer questions like "Which are your favourite photos" and "How did you become a photographer". On the photos, I picked a few and the blog guy, Kay, picked several himself: it all came out a bit more personal and extensive than I originally anticipated.

But it's all good fun and in the name of promoting our mad mission  8)

Mikey

Quote from: Trapezium Artist on August 06, 2014, 04:52:49 PM
Enjoy (will write more later, but still have BBC, PBS, CBC, CNN interviews to do tonight  ::))
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MikeEvs

Quote from: Trapezium Artist on August 07, 2014, 10:04:02 AM
Quote from: MikeEvs on August 07, 2014, 09:28:01 AM
Nice article on flickr TA, a very interesting read and nice photos  :)

Thanks, Mike, I appreciate the feedback. The origin of the connection with the Flickr blog team was Rosetta, of course, but it turned into one of these "meet the photographer" posts which left me slightly floundering to answer questions like "Which are your favourite photos" and "How did you become a photographer". On the photos, I picked a few and the blog guy, Kay, picked several himself: it all came out a bit more personal and extensive than I originally anticipated.

But it's all good fun and in the name of promoting our mad mission  8)

No problem mate, can I ask what do you think of this http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/product/cameras/eos_60da.do

Trapezium Artist

Quote from: MikeEvs on August 07, 2014, 04:09:17 PM
Quote from: Trapezium Artist on August 07, 2014, 10:04:02 AM
Quote from: MikeEvs on August 07, 2014, 09:28:01 AM
Nice article on flickr TA, a very interesting read and nice photos  :)

Thanks, Mike, I appreciate the feedback. The origin of the connection with the Flickr blog team was Rosetta, of course, but it turned into one of these "meet the photographer" posts which left me slightly floundering to answer questions like "Which are your favourite photos" and "How did you become a photographer". On the photos, I picked a few and the blog guy, Kay, picked several himself: it all came out a bit more personal and extensive than I originally anticipated.

But it's all good fun and in the name of promoting our mad mission  8)

No problem mate, can I ask what do you think of this http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/product/cameras/eos_60da.do

I'm probably not the right person to ask, Mike: as my Flickr blog thing pointed out, I don't tend to do much astrophotography because there are many people out there with far more time, patience, and creativity than me who do it brilliantly already. And as a professional night-sky picture taker, if you like, I'd rather not jeopardise my reputation there by posting half-arsed snaps with my DSLR. Plus I live in the Netherlands, where, well ...

None of which answers your question. I wasn't aware of the modified Canon: seems as though it just has a different IR blocking filter in, to allow a better transmission of the Hydrogen-alpha line at 6563 Angstroms, which gives nebulae their reddish glow. I'd be tempted to say that you could always recover that signal with appropriate image processing, but am not a specialist. Nevertheless it's interesting that Canon think there's enough of a market for such things to offer them commercially.

Personally, I was a bit more impressed by the D800E from Nikon, which removes the optical low-pass filter from a standard D800. The great majority of DSLR's have OLPF's to eliminate aliasing, which can lead to nasty moire fringing in certain situations. But they also reduce sharpness slightly, so it's a compromise. The D800E is said to be great for astrophotography because of all the pin-point sources (stars :-) in the images.

But again, this is not something I have much experience with; I'd imagine that there are lots of reviews / studies about the pros and cons of those two cameras on the web.

MikeEvs

Thanks,  I wasn't aware Canon made it either but it's been around for a few years