DonB312 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 1:30 amjohnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:25 pm
Took me quite a while to find Pandora. Had to increase the brightness of my display to the max! This image would have benefited from a mouse-over that pointed out where the moons were.
For those with NVidia video cards, there is a setting that can really help get a much better image. Right-click on the Windows desktop, then click "NVIDIA Control Panel". Select "Change resolution" from the list on the left side. Now scroll down to the section titled "Apply the following settings" and find the "Output dynamic range" setting. It usually defaults to "Limited". If you change that setting to "Full" then click the Apply button it will keep the video card from clipping the dynamic range (the detail in the dark and white areas). This makes a very noticeable improvement (at least for me).
Alternatively, just look in
the box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(moon) wrote:
<<Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 from photos taken by the Voyager 1 probe, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 26. In late 1985 it was officially named after Pandora from Greek mythology. It is also designated Saturn XVII.
Pandora was thought to be an outer shepherd satellite of the F Ring. However, recent studies indicate that it does not play such a role, and that only Prometheus, the inner shepherd, contributes to the confinement of the narrow ring. It is more heavily cratered than nearby Prometheus, and has at least two large craters 30 kilometres in diameter. The majority of craters on Pandora are shallow as a result of being filled with debris. Ridges and grooves are also present on moon's surface.
The orbit of Pandora appears to be chaotic, as a consequence of a series of four 118:121 mean-motion resonances with Prometheus. The most appreciable changes in their orbits occur approximately every 6.2 years, when the periapsis of Pandora lines up with the apoapsis of Prometheus and the moons approach to within about 1,400 kilometres. Pandora also has a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Mimas.
From its very low density and relatively high albedo, it seems likely that Pandora is a very porous icy body. There is much uncertainty in these values, however, so this remains to be confirmed.>>
[quote=DonB312 post_id=304988 time=1596936651 user_id=106172][quote=johnnydeep post_id=304984 time=1596921949 user_id=132061]
Took me quite a while to find Pandora. Had to increase the brightness of my display to the max! This image would have benefited from a mouse-over that pointed out where the moons were.
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For those with NVidia video cards, there is a setting that can really help get a much better image. Right-click on the Windows desktop, then click "NVIDIA Control Panel". Select "Change resolution" from the list on the left side. Now scroll down to the section titled "Apply the following settings" and find the "Output dynamic range" setting. It usually defaults to "Limited". If you change that setting to "Full" then click the Apply button it will keep the video card from clipping the dynamic range (the detail in the dark and white areas). This makes a very noticeable improvement (at least for me).[/quote]
[c]Alternatively, just look in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box]the box[/url].[/c]
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(moon)]
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<<Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 from photos taken by the Voyager 1 probe, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 26. In late 1985 it was officially named after Pandora from Greek mythology. It is also designated Saturn XVII.
Pandora was thought to be an outer shepherd satellite of the F Ring. However, recent studies indicate that it does not play such a role, and that only Prometheus, the inner shepherd, contributes to the confinement of the narrow ring. It is more heavily cratered than nearby Prometheus, and has at least two large craters 30 kilometres in diameter. The majority of craters on Pandora are shallow as a result of being filled with debris. Ridges and grooves are also present on moon's surface.
The orbit of Pandora appears to be chaotic, as a consequence of a series of four 118:121 mean-motion resonances with Prometheus. The most appreciable changes in their orbits occur approximately every 6.2 years, when the periapsis of Pandora lines up with the apoapsis of Prometheus and the moons approach to within about 1,400 kilometres. Pandora also has a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Mimas.
From its very low density and relatively high albedo, it seems likely that Pandora is a very porous icy body. There is much uncertainty in these values, however, so this remains to be confirmed.>>[/quote]