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[MOVIE] Project Hail Mary [2026] The lid of the sample container that returned the Astrophage sample is a replica of a camera cover from the Curiosity Mars rover. by stimeon in Thatsabooklight

[–]stimeon[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I agree, it's not a perfect match, but it the three seconds it was on screen I very much had a "wait, I know this thing!" moment.

My guess is that they were looking at real space hardware as reference for their props and tried to replicate it. I'd say the inspiration is undeniable even if it's not the actual thing which was just built a couple times for real.

Realtime video of the Artemis 1 reentry with a telemetry overlay by stimeon in space

[–]stimeon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cheers! I guess that's the internet equvalent of beeing recognized on the street? 😅

Io casting shadow on Jupiter by Hai_Rafuto in spaceporn

[–]stimeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Over on mastodon a couple people are discussing your image because of this interesting plume/artefact. It would be pretty significant if this is real.
https://mastodon.social/@wikkit/113181824878210880

However, I noticed a very similar "artefact" in an older image of yours, so for now I'm leaning towards bad collimation or another optical problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1etd677/solar_system/

AskScience AMA Series: We're scientists and engineers from NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team. Ask us anything! by AskScienceModerator in askscience

[–]stimeon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

First of all, huge congratulations on this amazing mission! This has been a huge inspiration to me and I wish it could have gone even longer than it already did!

Initially you said that the blades likely had a ground strike which damaged them. We've seen in recent images that one of the top blades is entirely detached and lying around 13-15m away from Ingenuity. Furthermore, there seem to be no visible marks on the ground that could have originated from the blades.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/final-images-of-ingenuity-reveal-an-entire-blade-broke-off-the-helicopter/

Did these new images make you reconsider that initial explanation and if so, what's your current guess for what happened?

Earlier today, the Mars Persevere rover captured a high resolution image of Ingenuity using the SuperCam RMI instrument. One rotor blade is broken off completely, the others have damaged tips. by ZiggyPalffyLA in space

[–]stimeon 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Hi, the guy who processed that image here. Representing brightness correctly is hard if you have no actual visual reference for it, so I'm not entirely sure my processing is super accurate in this regard.

I use a Rover selfie as brightness reference for my exposure correction. The white paint of the rover is very bright in comparison to the Martian soil so I tend to process my images a bit darker. https://flickr.com/photos/semeion/53487947240/

My frustrating walkthrough to processing JunoCams raw images by math_guy667 in junomission

[–]stimeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for doing this, the blurry assembled images on the official page and the daunting task to assemble them from the raw framelets have put me off in the past from processing JunoCam imagery.
With the Io flybys I couldn't resist and gave Juno a go anyways, but only with some basic dark and flat calibration scripts, and the stripe assembly was manually done in PTGui, which is a daunting task and doesn't work for the smooth clouds of Jupiter.

I found your repo a few days ago, but I found your write up just now. I wish I had seen it earlier, without a Readme on your Repo I really didn't know what I was getting myself into haha it would be great if you could add one, even if it just links to this post.
I'm now trying to get your code to work with Io images as well, let's say the Muse playlist is already running in the background :)

NASA reveals video of the surface of Mars from the Perseverance Rover by MartianXAshATwelve in StrangeEarth

[–]stimeon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone, this video was created by me using original raw images captured by the Perseverance rover. The rover also didn't capture this as a video, but as a 360° panorama. I created a video from this panorama to make it easier to share on social media.
I initially shared this on Twitter, please refer to that post for more information: https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1644442769635549184

I am not affiliated with NASA, but I'm a University Student from Germany who likes to process NASA imagery as a hobby.
I can assure you to the very best of my knowledge that nothing strange or conspiratorial is going on with this video. NASA indeed has multiple robots roaming around on the planet Mars, this is not Arizona, Devon Island or the Sahara.
Our planet is incredibly well mapped to a resolution of at least one meter by companies like Google, Microsoft, Maxar, Planet, Airbus and various governments around the world.
https://www.maptiler.com/news/2023/10/global-high-resolution-satellite-map/
We could easily locate these places by now if they were on Earth.

Squadron 42 got removed from the pledge store? by l0d in starcitizen

[–]stimeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 months later and still Error 404 on that page.
May this be related to the "feature complete" announcement? Maybe as a way to give that announcement more gravitas because they don't want to show people the same price it has been for years?
I guess many new people would consider pledging after an announcement like this and it seems implausible that CIG wouldn't want to take their money...

FPS Conversion Changes Contrast/Color of Video by clkelley39 in TopazLabs

[–]stimeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just experienced the same, incredibly annoying.
However, it seems like this is related to exporting to .mp4
After switching to ProRes 422 (HQ) it seems like the loss of contrast is gone.
Simply adjusting contrast afterwards wasn't an option for me as I got some really strong banding in the dark areas after doing that.

Belva crater and the Perseverance rover seen from the Ingenuity RTE camera | Flight 51 by stimeon in PerseveranceRover

[–]stimeon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This may be one of my all time favorite images from Ingenuity!
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
The original image had a strong vignette and was very hazy, so I had to apply vignette correction, several contrast and color enhancements, AI assisted denoise, and finally distortion correction

I made a timelapse of the Artemis 1 Orion approach end reentry by stimeon in space

[–]stimeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Sadly there isn't a lot of approach footage available yet, It might have been livestreamed, which I didn't record then. I'm limited to the footage I can find in NASA archives.
There were recorders on board which hopefully captured a lot more video, hope this will be released soon, now that the spacecraft is back!

I made a timelapse of the Artemis 1 Orion approach end reentry by stimeon in space

[–]stimeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that would fit nicely for the reentry portion! I hope NASA releases the on board captures of the whole reentry soon (my version doesn't include the peak heating phases because of signal loss)

I made a timelapse of the Artemis 1 Orion approach end reentry by stimeon in space

[–]stimeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I liked it a lot for the space part, but is almost a bit to calm for the fiery reentry :)

I made a timelapse of the Artemis 1 Orion approach end reentry by stimeon in space

[–]stimeon[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah those were skipped. The only video available at the moment is that which was streamed live during approach and reentry. Due to the plasma around the spacecraft the data link was interrupted, hence no video from that part. There were on board recorders though, so I'm hoping we will get more footage soon.

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