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artsnova

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2005-07-14

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

Hello Everyone,

Please let me know what you think of my web site:

http://www.marsartgallery.com]http://www.marsartgallery.com

I've had it up for a few months now and would be interested in this group's feedback.

Thanks.

Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
http://www.marsartgallery.com]http://www.marsartgallery.com

Grypd

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From: Scotland, Europe

Registered: 2004-06-07

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

A very good site and thanks for bringing it to Newmars.

And welcome to Newmars Jim, Hope you have hours of learning here and bring a lot to the forums.

Failte

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Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.

Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

*Welcome to New Mars. 

Interesting site.

Columbiad IIs First Daguerreotype of Phobos
An imagined view of Phobos as taken by a spacecraft in the 1800's

 

???  Say what?

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Rxke

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Registered: 2003-11-03

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

@Cindy: click the image itself for more info on it.

@artsnova: nice idea the daguerrotype. :up: Though I'd bet the crew of Columbiad II would die when they tried to process the plate in their cramped cabin, heehee! Some months ago I did a workshop on daguerrotypes, and the mercuryvapors used to develop the plates... They kill plants in the room if you do not ventilate thouroughly!   

Weird, only yesterday I was actually contemplating do do something similar, but either salted paper or albumenprints...

Palomar

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

@Cindy: click the image itself for more info on it.

*I figured it was an artistic license situation (I could go into detail explaining why I didn't initially click on the image, but we don't want to go off-topic...hectic day/cooler's broken and it's 98 F in this room/waiting for delivery, etc., etc...).  I am up on space exploration history; it had to be that (artistic license) or else a major typo in date and probe name.

Interesting, but I'm the hard-tacks scientist sort.  I prefer the "real stuff."  Sorry.

I do see some items I definitely like, though. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

artsnova

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2005-07-14

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

Hi Cindy,

Sorry abou the delay in responding but  things have been hectic of late.

*Welcome to New Mars. 

Interesting site.

Columbiad IIs First Daguerreotype of Phobos
An imagined view of Phobos as taken by a spacecraft in the 1800's

 

???  Say what?

--Cindy

I was attempting to create an image that would look like a daguerreotype. I had recently seen a telescopic daguerreotype of the Moon  so I decided to do some revisionist history.  Curiously, I have two versions of that same MGS image of Phobos on my site -- neither of which is meant to be a scientifically accurate rendition.

Thanks for visiting.

Jim, http://www.marsartgallery.com

artsnova

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2005-07-14

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

Hi Cindy,

@Cindy: click the image itself for more info on it.

*I figured it was an artistic license situation (I could go into detail explaining why I didn't initially click on the image, but we don't want to go off-topic...hectic day/cooler's broken and it's 98 F in this room/waiting for delivery, etc., etc...).  I am up on space exploration history; it had to be that (artistic license) or else a major typo in date and probe name.

I do see some items I definitely like, though. 

--Cindy

It's all explained at http://www.marsartgallery.com/o_phobos.html .
Being a fan of SF  and old photography, this seemed to be a nice experiment. Plus I don't recall having seen anything like this done previously.

I'm glad you saw some things you like. I have  posted wallpapers of most everything for free.

While I do provide accurate representations of a couple images, most have been either enhanced to accent their artistic quality or  used as a starting point for a purely artistic image.

Best Regards, Jim   http://www.marsartgallery.com

Rxke

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

I had recently seen a telescopic daguerreotype of the Moon ...

:shock:  Whoa! That's quite a technical feat, IMO... Was it a historical picture, or was it made recently? I can imagine someone doing it today, with a good telescope and trackinghardware, but it seems...
I wonder about the shuttertime, in full daylight, daguerrotypes easily take 20 minutes, half an hour, so...
I've seen wet plate moon pics, of course, but never heard about daguerrotypes being used in astronomy. (Something to be said for those, the level of detail in a good daguerrotype is absolutely stunning... But it looks mightily impractical to do...)

Hmmm... Did a quick Google... http://www.astrophotography.com/info.htm
20 minute exposure, that's fast!

artsnova

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2005-07-14

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

Hi Rxke,

I had recently seen a telescopic daguerreotype of the Moon ...

:shock:  Whoa! That's quite a technical feat, IMO... Was it a historical picture, or was it made recently? I can imagine someone doing it today, with a good telescope and trackinghardware, but it seems...

The picture was made at the Harvard College Observatory. The date was 1852. All this is explained in the article that goes with my picture, along with a link to the web page containing the picture itself. The URL is http://www.marsartgallery.com/o_phobos.html

Best Regards, Jim
http://www.marsartgallery.com

Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

:oops:

Overlooked that link. Thanks for pointing it out.

Nice pic, too bad the plate looks in not too good a state, though, that's a lot of oxidation (and blotches)

Ciboulette

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Registered: 2005-10-08

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Re: Comments on www.marsartgallery.com - Pictures of Mars

Thanks for the links !
Beautiful pictures.