Re:Dawn’s Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator...
by twic on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @01:00PM
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I wish they would put scale bars on these photos :(.
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Re:Dawn’s Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator...
by MaxLeiter on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:04PM
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I'm not familiar enough with the math to figure it out, but the footnote for the image mentions the photo is from 21 miles above, and wikipedia [1] reports the cameras focal length is 150mm. Is it possible to calculate the relative scale with that?
Re:Dawn’s Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator...
by perilunar on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:36AM
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You can calculate the field of view from the focal length, but you need to also know the film/sensor size.
However the Wiki article you linked to said the FOV of the framing camera is 5.5° x 5.5°.
So at 21 miles, the photos would be about (5.5°/360° ⋅ 2𝛑 ⋅ 21 miles) = 2.0 miles across.