ARLA/CLUSTER: Fw: [amsat-bb] CUTE-1.7+APDII Earth Picture analysis

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From: "Mineo Wakita" <ei7m-wkt  asahi-net.or.jp>
To: <amsat-bb  amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] CUTE-1.7+APDII Earth Picture analysis


>
> CUTE-1.7+APDII camera Earth Picture was analyzed
> by the grand station as follows.
>
> First, rotate the picture by 180degrees.
> Can you see land in the left side of the picture?
>
> http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/080601_Picture_180degRotated.jpg
>
> Using the Google Earth and see Japan from the position of Cute-1.7
> then trim the image by 50degrees. Coastlines are identical.
>
> http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/080601_Picture_GoogleEarth_Japan.jpg
>
> To clearly compare them, look at the picture below.
> In the picture, parts of coastlines are accentuated.
> Also, shapes of clouds looks the same.
>
> http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/080601_Picture_Comparison.jpg
>
> JA1GDE/Mr.Kasei gives us the following picture which clearly shows
> what was in the picture. We'd like to say thank you for Mr.Kasei.
>
> http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/080601_Picture_JA1GDE.jpg
>
> See more:
> http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/cut17apd.htm#bottom
>
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