A mathematical group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers have reach their goal of replicating the Voyager probe ’s iconic 1979 flyby of Saturn by using images take with their own ground - based telescopes .
Back in the 1970′s when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune , I remember being mesmerized by a picture created from Voyager 1 images of the drift of the clouds in Jupiter ’s atmosphere . Voyager 1 began taking pictures of Jupiter as it approached the major planet in January 1979 and completed its Jupiter encounter in early April . During that clock time it took almost 19,000 pictures and many other scientific measurements to make the inadequate movie , which you’re able to see below , showing the intricate movement of the bright band of clouds for the first time .
Now , 35 years later a radical of seven Swedish amateur stargazer achieved their goal of replicate the Voyager 1 footage , not with another flyby but with images taken with their own ground - based scope . ”We started this joint labor back in December of 2013 to make over the NASA Voyager 1 flyby of Jupiter , ” amatuer astronomer Göran Strand distinguish Universe Today . “ During 90 days we captured 560 still images of Jupiter and turned them into 90 gross maps that cover the whole of Jupiter ’s aerofoil . ”
Their newly released moving picture , above details the work they did and the hurdles they get the best ( include incredibly bad weather condition in Sweden this wintertime ) to make their dream a reality . They called their project “ Voyager 3 . ”
It is really an amazing project and those of you who do paradigm processing will appreciate the information in the video about the tools they used and how they did their processing to create this video .
The seven Swedish astronomer who enter in the Voyager 3 project are ( from left to right hand in the photo below ) Daniel Sundström , Torbjörn Holmqvist , Peter Rosén ( the project instigator ) , Göran Strand , Johan Warell and his girl Noomi , Martin Högberg and Roger Utas .
This articleoriginally appearedat Universe Today and is republished here with license .
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