Comments on: Approximate Projections and Raw Cutouts https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2012/08/15/approximate-projections-and-raw-cutouts/ SkyView News and Discussion Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Tom https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2012/08/15/approximate-projections-and-raw-cutouts/comment-page-1/#comment-22043 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:02:46 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=367#comment-22043 I believe that there is a lunar version of Google Earth which you can use to view the moon.

SkyView will by default provide an image at the full resolution of the survey you select. If you prefer you can specify the total size of the image (which in conjunction with the number of pixels gives you the resolution). So, for example, if you want to see the entire constellation of Orion, the DSS surveys are a poor choice. Say we want a field of view of 40 x 40 degrees, for our constellation map. The DSS pixels are about 1″ or so in size, so we would need a image with something like 100,000 x 100,000 pixels to cover the image at full resolution. You can in principle do this, but it is much better to use a survey closer to the native resolution, e.g., the Mellinger optical data. Here the default pixel size is about 0.01 degree so we only need to undersample by a little to get say a 1000 x 1000 image covering our region of interest.

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By: Joydeep https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2012/08/15/approximate-projections-and-raw-cutouts/comment-page-1/#comment-22012 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:33:21 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=367#comment-22012 Does this means that we would be able to receive more accurate and better quality images than what we are currently receiving. I used 234, 345 as coordinates of source while viewing the survey images. I was presented with a zoom view. Is it that the zoom would display more clear images that before?
I am also interested in knowing is there any tool that I can use to view images of moon in a similar manner?

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