Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images

Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by minikites on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:27PM (#10112404)

I can't tell from the writeup, is the animation speed a reasonably accurate analog of how fast New Horizons passed Pluto?

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Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by kipi on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:33PM (#10112441)

The speed is relatively consistent except for the early frames (where pictures were taken at twice the rate of later on) and where frames were dropped due to missing data or alignment failure. Here's a version of the animation where frame duration is proportional to the real time between the frames:

http://i.imgur.com/ncTIdHL.gif

The animation spans 3 months or so. The real time is shown in the text in the corner.

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Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by spartanatreyu on Monday August 24, 2015 @07:53PM (#10113547)

Fixing your link:

http://i.imgur.com/ncTIdHL.gifv

Using ".gifv" in the link sends a video instead of a gif, way smaller file size and higher quality animations are better for everyone.

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Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by minikites on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:34PM (#10112453)

Neat, thanks for sharing this!

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Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by idlewords on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:29PM (#10112426)

Each orbit of Pluto and Charon around each other takes 6.4 days. This is speeded up by a factor of a lot.

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Re:Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images by minikites on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:34PM (#10112451)

That makes more sense, I read quite a few articles emphasizing just how fast New Horizons was going so I got carried away.

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