fwiw, here's a better look at the shape



not too sure, really

Explanation (pops) from the woman who cleaned up the image(s):
Alex, you're correct that Photoshop was involved, though not perhaps for the reason you think. Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels. I explain this process in much more detail in this post: http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002427/
#3 - Emily Lakdawalla - 04/20/2010 - 11:25

Can't believe I spent that much time looking for this.

It is strange. I don't have to change contrast or brightness to see a bad photo shop.

well whatever it is, its blacking something that has red and green at the upper right hand side of the "blotout"

Kirk's_Toupee: well whatever it is, its blacking something that has red and green at the upper right hand side of the "blotout"

See my post above.

Kirk's_Toupee: well whatever it is, its blacking something that has red and green at the upper right hand side of the "blotout"

As noted in an above post, space craft shoot in monochrome, through Red, Green, and Blue filters, and then the images are compiled, and stacked into one image to produce much truer colors than you can get out of a standard CCD which has sets of 4 pixels each with their own mini color filter in Red, Green and Blue.

The blue image was likely taken last, so therefore the least movement occurred during the blue shot.


Anyway,
Man, conspiracy theorists really love to just grasp at those straws to try and prove a conspiracy.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING DERRRRRR

IndyMBA: Kirk's_Toupee: well whatever it is, its blacking something that has red and green at the upper right hand side of the "blotout"

See my post above.

Yeah I read that after I posted. Thanks for the link.

I think I have used Reverse Photoshop to figure out what they're hiding:


Come on, hot Asari babes!

It's the f*cking covenant.

If only there was some sort of screen recording operation that didn't involve using a camcorder to record your TV.
Also this guy is crazy.

Nibiru.

AdolfOliverPanties: There's a link on that YouTube page that leads to a vid of Buzz Aldrin talking about developing the moon. Then he mentions a monolith on one of the moons of Mars. WTF?


At the end of this vid (new window)

there has been a lot of unusual things going on

Looks like jellyfish (new window)

Clearly, it's adjusted to remove the planet immediately beyond Saturn from ruining the picture.

this has to do with that sandra bullock movie doesn't it?

IndyMBA: Explanation (pops) from the woman who cleaned up the image(s):
Alex, you're correct that Photoshop was involved, though not perhaps for the reason you think. Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels. I explain this process in much more detail in this post: http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002427/
#3 - Emily Lakdawalla - 04/20/2010 - 11:25

Can't believe I spent that much time looking for this.

That's a pretty low quality shop job Emily did. I hope she gets in big trouble for such an obvious use of a brush. That could have been edited in a way to not leave such obvious brush marks by anyone with a dab of common sense and a few minutes.

No, your honor, I've never accessed Starfleet surveillance systems, nor have I ever altered the images found there in any way.

the blurring looked like a giant hamster humping the moon

tinyarena: We don't need to make stuff up. We can't even understand what we've already found.

Pretty much this. There is enough weird shiat out there to keep us busy for awhile.

seventypercent: THIS IS A CONSPIRACY TO... DO... LIKE, SATURN STUFF

Hush.

bulok: the blurring looked like a giant hamster humping the moon

HOLY fark YOU'VE UNCOVERED IT!!!
I'd watch you back, I bet they've already dispatched the men in black to deal with you

tinyarena: SATURN's NORTH POLE

Here's some explainin (new window)' of what might be going on there.

IndyMBA: Explanation (pops) from the woman who cleaned up the image(s):
Alex, you're correct that Photoshop was involved, though not perhaps for the reason you think. Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels. I explain this process in much more detail in this post: http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002427/
#3 - Emily Lakdawalla - 04/20/2010 - 11:25

Can't believe I spent that much time looking for this.

That's what the Reptilians want us to believe.

/x files music

Quantumbunny: IndyMBA: Explanation (pops) from the woman who cleaned up the image(s):
Alex, you're correct that Photoshop was involved, though not perhaps for the reason you think. Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels. I explain this process in much more detail in this post: http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002427/
#3 - Emily Lakdawalla - 04/20/2010 - 11:25

Can't believe I spent that much time looking for this.

That's a pretty low quality shop job Emily did. I hope she gets in big trouble for such an obvious use of a brush. That could have been edited in a way to not leave such obvious brush marks by anyone with a dab of common sense and a few minutes.

Here's a wild guess, maybe the picture was meant to be viewed as presented as a "hey cool, look at this photo" kind of deal. Maybe she doesn't give a fark what some dork in his basement can uncover by screwing with the image in photoshop.

If I was her boss, I'd tell her to start leaving semi-obvious little fragments on purpose just to fark with the conspiracy tards.

bulok: the blurring looked like a giant hamster humping the moon

SILENCE! No one is supposed to know of their return until it is too late. Do you want to get "cheeked" or something???

AdolfOliverPanties: The Sun is in the background on the dark side of the objects?

They photoshopped the sun out, so of course it's dark now...

More seriously: Everyone should know by now the images NASA releases are processed, because they are taken for scientific and not aesthetic purposes. To make them pretty for the public, tweaking is required.

If you're that butthurt over it wait for the archived versions of the raw images to come out. (Though to be honest I'm not sure why they take so long...)


tinyarena: But, I'm a little bit sad too. One less Grand Mystery.

I feel somewhat sorry for people who feel that actually knowing/understanding something makes it any less interesting or beautiful. I also tend to feel exactly the opposite, so that's probably why.
=Smidge=

tinyarena: You want unexplainable celestial objects?!
I'll give you unexplainable celestial objects!

SATURN's NORTH POLE:

[www.dennishollingsworth.us image 234x200]

Nobody has a CLUE what this is. It is rotating at the speed of the planet, not at the speed of the cloud cover. It's the largest geometrical object we've EVER seen. And we have no idea what it is. Oh, and Saturn's SOUTH pole? Is a stationary hurricane thousands of mile across.

We don't need to make stuff up. We can't even understand what we've already found.

Saturn's hexagon recreated in the laboratory (new window)

It's sad. Science is pretty cool on it's own, but then you get folks just plain making shiat up because they can't keep up with the (usually slow, methodical) scientific advances that come after the "oh wow" instances. Oh well.

Came for Independence Day reference

/Left disappointed

AdolfOliverPanties: Growing Evidence 9/11 Was an Interdimensional ET-Related False Flag Operation Link (new window)

Oh for fark's sake.

Yeah I linked that before I saw that.

Paging The Bad Astronomer
Paging The Bad Astronomer
Please report to thread 5674858 to commence education of the unwashed masses.

Manfred J. Hattan: Clearly, it's adjusted to remove the planet immediately beyond Saturn from ruining the picture.

I larfed

bulok: the blurring looked like a giant hamster humping the moon

Boo?