Yep. Similar to "Why no stars showing". The camera's iris adjusts to the brightest source. A bright source means the iris closes and very little light comes in or the bright source will damage the pick-up (usually a CCD device these days).
Quote from: cletus on 02/08/2018 04:55 amI wonder if it would be possible to collect all the frames from when the earth is centered in the frame, align them, and just get a continuous time lapse of the earth receding. Any takers?Something like this?
I wonder if it would be possible to collect all the frames from when the earth is centered in the frame, align them, and just get a continuous time lapse of the earth receding. Any takers?
And Elon showed up at Fishlips... How come no NSFers were there??https://twitter.com/PortCanaveral/status/961635748796608513[/font][/size]
Quote from: Johnnyhinbos on 02/08/2018 05:15 pmAnd Elon showed up at Fishlips... How come no NSFers were there??<snip><snip>They were also handing out free drink coupons for neighboring establishments to members of the public they turned away.
And Elon showed up at Fishlips... How come no NSFers were there??<snip>
FYI, this is the second camera feed in the SpaceX YouTube video that was posted post flight. You can toggle between the two and they stay in sync. Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/08/2018 06:24 pmHaven’t noticed this being posted:QuoteThis is a static camera angle in @SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne of the #FalconHeavy launch. Go to the 29-minute mark for just before launch. @GwynneShotwell's reactions in the front row are priceless.https://twitter.com/wordsmithfl/status/961663689249230850
Haven’t noticed this being posted:QuoteThis is a static camera angle in @SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne of the #FalconHeavy launch. Go to the 29-minute mark for just before launch. @GwynneShotwell's reactions in the front row are priceless.https://twitter.com/wordsmithfl/status/961663689249230850
This is a static camera angle in @SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne of the #FalconHeavy launch. Go to the 29-minute mark for just before launch. @GwynneShotwell's reactions in the front row are priceless.
Quote from: .Scott on 02/08/2018 12:32 pmI would like to hear other peoples thoughts on what the likely duration of this trip.A couple of estimates have been "a million year" and "a hundred million years". But I am not so sure.The roadster is in an orbit with a period of about 1.6 years. So every 1.6 years, it will be in the vicinity of Earth's orbit. Given the relative speed of the Earth and the roadster, it would seem that it has to be within a 12 hour segment of Earth's orbit to be significantly affected. So, once every 1.6 years it has about a 0.5/365 chance of closing in the right segment of Earth's orbit. The next factor I will have to guess at. I would imaging that its orbital plane does not match that of Earths. So most of the time, it will meet the Earth orbit only in 2 of the 3 dimensions. So I will guess that the orbital planes are fairly close and it will match well enough in the 3rd dimension about 2% of the time.So that's one significant interaction every 1.6*365/(0.5*0.02) = about 1 interaction every 60,000 years, about 17 every million years.That seems to me more like a million year trip than a 100 million year trip. And if it happens to loose energy relative to the Earth orbit on the first interaction - perhaps a lot less than that.Depends on orbit inclination. I guess the chance of interaction is much lower than that.Also Jupiter's disturbance will have an impact, making it less likely to intersect Earth's path.
I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on what the likely duration of this trip.A couple of estimates have been "a million year" and "a hundred million years". But I am not so sure.The roadster is in an orbit with a period of about 1.6 years. So every 1.6 years, it will be in the vicinity of Earth's orbit. Given the relative speed of the Earth and the roadster, it would seem that it has to be within a 12 hour segment of Earth's orbit to be significantly affected. So, once every 1.6 years it has about a 0.5/365 chance of closing in the right segment of Earth's orbit. The next factor I will have to guess at. I would imaging that its orbital plane does not match that of Earths. So most of the time, it will meet the Earth orbit only in 2 of the 3 dimensions. So I will guess that the orbital planes are fairly close and it will match well enough in the 3rd dimension about 2% of the time.So that's one significant interaction every 1.6*365/(0.5*0.02) = about 1 interaction every 60,000 years, about 17 every million years.That seems to me more like a million year trip than a 100 million year trip. And if it happens to loose energy relative to the Earth orbit on the first interaction - perhaps a lot less than that.
Similar sound hereLooks like an open field but we don't see what's behind the camera.
Probabilistically, the vast majority of inner solar system bodies are eventually either thrown out of the system by Jupiter, or swallowed by the sun."Millions of years" is a huge understatement for the former possibility: once the starman is clear of the solar system it will be a long long trip. Or of course his trip could end more quickly in the sun. "Some say the [starman] will end in fire. Some say in ice," as the poet Robert Frost would have said.Some rough simulations were done and showed Jupiter to be a major influence within a few thousand years. So I'm with Frost: "Ice. Is also great. And would suffice."
Quote from: Kenm on 02/08/2018 05:17 amSimilar sound hereLooks like an open field but we don't see what's behind the camera.I suggest that the answer is in the title of the video you linked.
I didn't find this information anywhere: Did the roadster separate from the second stage or is it still attached?
Quote from: jpo234 on 02/08/2018 08:29 pmI didn't find this information anywhere: Did the roadster separate from the second stage or is it still attached?AFAIK, I'm not sure there is definitive information but consensus is almost certainly they remain attached. No reason to separate.
