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    Insight Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2016

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by James Kerman
    Fixed a link

    Greetings All,
    The winners are here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/gallery/2016/sep/16/insight-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2016
    None of my favourites made it so I thought I would post them anyway:

    Aurora Bird – Jan R Olsen (Norway)

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    Jan R Olsen / The National Maritime Museum / Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 competition


    Between the Rocks – Rick Whitacre (USA)

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    RICK WHITACRE / THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM / ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH’S ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2016 COMPETITION

     

    The Diamond Ring – Melanie Thorne (UK)

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    Melanie Thorne / The National Maritime Museum / Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 competition

     

    Alone – Lee Cook (UK)

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    Lee Cook / The National Maritime Museum / Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 competition

     

    A Fool's Errand - Eve Elcano

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    Thanks, mate.  I'm waiting for the net to be in the right place at the moment.
    Currently I've done about 1400km between the flags  but actual distance would be about 2000km due to tacking uphill and avoiding bad terrain.
    The Elcano itself is more of an endurance test than anything and I'm finding myself procrastinating a fair bit.  To the point that I'm doing housework instead of playing KSP however this has led to a fringe benefit:
    Apparently there is nothing sexier than a fat, old bearded man doing the washing up - who knew?

    A Fool's Errand - Eve Elcano

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by James Kerman

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    I decided to try an Eve Elcano because I usually avoid Eve, besides putting a simple science probe on the surface.

    I am doing this in a career save I began about 2 weeks ago and I am running ScanSat and Kerbal Engineer as the only mods.

    Mission Profile:
    The interplanetary vessel "EVE" will launch from Kerbin and make a polar orbit around Eve. 
    A Scan/Comms relay sat will be deployed into approx. 499x499km orbit (Sub optimal orbit for both scanners on-board however maximising monoprop for final orbit after scanning is complete).
    The "Eve" will move to approx. 150x150km orbit to deploy the "victim rover".
    The "Victim Rover" will de-orbit itself as close to the north pole as possible with Neldo Kerman and begin the Elcano.
    The Eve will attempt a polar transfer to Gilly in order to deploy a second Scan/Coms bird and then return to Kerbin for refuelling and docking a return module for Neldon (if I can be bothered).

    Launch and Delivery
     

    Spoiler

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    The "Eve" on the pad.

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    Burning for an Eve encounter.

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    Course correction.

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    Scan/coms sat deployment altitude.

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    Bird deployed.

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    Victim rover deployed.

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    De-orbiting on RCS.

     

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    Heat Shield deployed.

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    Almost there.

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    Neldo is now ready to begin.

    The Elcano Begins

    Spoiler

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    Landing position.

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    That looks interesting.  I'll check that out when I get back here.

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    I'm using the flags (once selected) to control my steering on the relatively flat terrain.  I drive a few meters on my preferred bearing and then set SAS to anti-target.  Flags are being placed as close to 100km apart as possible.

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    Some progress.  Design weaknesses are becoming apparent.  A couple more RTG's would have been useful as would some kind of anchoring system to prevent hill sliding while re-charging.

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    Water testing did not go well.

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    Found this rock (one of many actually), also began watching voyager again on my secondary monitor.

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    Over a quarter of the way now.  The purple is really getting to me now.  Night driving is the worst.

     

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