Dennis Wingo: End of Day August 8, 2013
Lots of tapes done today. Got all the way from W5-143 to W5-158. Not quite as good as it looks as we already had captured 156 and 157 early in the year, they being the tapes for LOV-041 the oblique crater Messier and Messier A. We have five tapes to go tomorrow and we will be done with Woomera tapes for LOV!
Then as soon as Austin gets the report together on the framelets captured we will start on the Goldstone LOV tapes. I have already opened a couple of cans and it looks like they started getting data a few days earlier….
Ok, tapes and images for today…
W5-143, partial capture LOV-067H, complete capture 065M, 066H
W5-144, partial capture LOV-064M, complete capture 065H
W5-145, partial capture LOV-063M, complete capture 064H
W5-146, partial capture LOV-062M, 063H
W5-147, partial capture LOV-063H (completes image)
W5-148, partial capture LOV-061M, complete capture 062H
W5-149, partial capture LOV-060M, complete capture 061H
W5-150, partial capture LOV-059M, 050H
Will do the rest in the morning, found an error in the original NASA document but need time to figure out.
Five more to go for Woomera LOV!
Mid Day, August 8, 2013
Running tape again today. Lots of looong captures….. Running W5-148 right now. Hope to get into the mid 50’s today and be done with Woomera tomorrow!
Here are the tapes from yesterday…
W5-138, complete capture LOV-087M, 088H
W5-139, partial capture LOV-070H
W5-140, complete capture LOV-068M, 069H
W5-141, complete capture LOV-067M, 068H
W5-142, complete capture LOV-066M, partial capture 067H
Toward the end of the day today status, August 7, 2013.
I did not start doing tapes until the afternoon as I had a paper to get out today. Right now I am running W5-142. Here are the tapes that we did yesterday.
W5-124, partial capture LOV-098M, 099H, (completes images) 097M [image overlap with W5-38]
W5-125, partial capture LOV-097M, 098H
W5-126, partial capture LOV-098H (completes image) partial capture 096M
W5-127, partial capture LOV-096M, complete capture 097H
W5-128, complete capture LOV-095M, partial capture 096H (completes image) [image overlap with W5-36]
W5-129, partial capture LOV-095H [image overlap with W5-36]
W5-130, partial capture LOV-095H (completes image finally!)
W5-131, partial capture LOV-093M, complete capture 094H
W5-132, partial capture LOV-092M, (completes image), complete capture 093H [image overlap with W5-33]
W5-133, complete capture LOV-091M, 092H
W5-134, partial capture LOV-090M, 091H
W5-135, partial capture LOV-091H (completes image)
W5-136, complete capture LOV-089M, 090H
W5-137, complete capture LOV-088M, 089H
That is all from yesterday
The rest at the end of the day….
LOIRP Status Report 6 August 2013
Dennis Wingo: Got a lot of tapes done yesterday but the accounting is getting more difficult due to the overlaps now between the priority readouts and the final readouts.
This is shortening the amount of tape that has to be run but it is also going to make Austin’s job of piecing the images together more difficult as well.
W5-111, complete capture LOV-142M,143H
W5-112, partial capture LOV-141M, 142H
W5-113, complete capture LOV-123M, 124H, partial capture 122M
W5-114, partial capture LOV-122M, 122H, complete capture 123H, 121M
W5-115, partial capture LOV-122H (completes image)
W5-116, partial capture LOV-120M, complete capture 121H
W5-117, partial capture LOV-119M, 120H
W5-118, complete capture 118M, partial capture 119H (completes image) [image overalp with W5-042]
W5-119, partial capture LOV-117M [image overlap with W5-042], partial capture 118H
W5-120, partial capture LOV-118H
W5-121, partial capture LOV-116M, 117H
W5-122, partial capture LOV-116H [image overlap with W5-043],
W5-123, complete capture LOV-114M, 115H, partial capture 113M
It is going to get a lot more complicated from here on out. As I suspected there is considerable overlap both within a single ground station readout (priority readout vs final readout, but we have to deal with the same thing from the other ground stations.
We are already up to W5-133 today due to the overlaps. This is good, but it makes our lives more difficult in accounting!
LOIRP Status Report 5 August 2013
Status Monday end of day. We got up through W5-123 today, 13 tapes, a good day. What we have started to find is overlaps between the priority readout and the final readout. I figured this considering the number of tapes we have but this will lower the number of tapes we have to run. We saved about 150 framelets or one long tape spread over three tapes today. Saves head life as well!!
Tomorrow morning we will skip an entire tape and start on W5-125.
That means we have 36 or fewer tapes to go to finish Woomera this week!
LOIRP Status Report 2 August 2013
Dennis Wingo: These are the tapes we processed in the past three weeks. (larger image). Wow, when the week started, I started capturing tape W5-38. At this moment tape W5-110 is playing. However, tapes 53-62 and tapes 99-104 had been previously captured. So subtract 15 tapes and we have 58 tapes captured this week. That certainly is a record for the project. Here are the tapes captured today.
W5-095, complete capture LOV-176H
W5-096, complete capture LOV-174M, 175H
W5-097, partial capture LOV-173M, complete capture 174H
W5-098, complete capture LOV-172M, 173H
W5-99, (captured earlier in year)
W5-100 (captured earlier in year)
W5-101 (captured earlier in year)
W5-102 (captured earlier in year)
W5-103 (captured earlier in year)
W5-104 (captured earlier in year)
W5-105, partial capture LOV-134H (completes image), complete capture 132M
W5-106, complete capture 133H, 131M
W5-107, complete capture 132H, 130M
W5-108, partial capture 131H, 130H, complete capture 129M
W5-109, partial capture 130H (completes image), complete capture 128M
W5-110, partial capture 129H, complete capture 127M
It is my goal for next week to complete the captures for LOV-Woomera. That will be 51 tapes, a few less than this week.
A project record.
LOIRP Status Report 30 July 2013
Dennis WIngo: Status, end of day 7-30-13: As I may have mentioned in the past, we have captured some lunar orbiter five images before this concentrated run. The Copernicus mosaic we did a few months ago, the Messier craters and some other images we had captured before.
So today I started with W5-051 and 052. Then we skipped all the way to W5-063. Then we skipped W5-064 and began again with 065. Today we have captured 12 tapes, going through W5-073. Tomorrow I will list the images but it takes a while to figure out from the paperwork.
Hopefully, if we can keep this pace up we will be over W5-100 on Friday and then we have another several tapes to skip! We won’t know what we have to do with the Goldstone and Madrid tapes for LO-V until we are completely finished with Woomera. So, there you have it….
Status mid day 7-30-13: These are the images captured from the tapes run Saturday (2) and Monday (13). We made it through LOV-50 through the end of yesterday and with what we have run today we are more than 1/3rd the way through LOV Woomera tapes now.
W5-036, partial capture LOV-096H, 095H, complete image 094M
W5-037, partial capture LOV-099M, complete image 100H
W5-038, partial capture LOV-098M, complete image 099H
W5-039, complete capture LOV-103H
W5-040, complete capture LOV-101M, 102H, partial image 100M
W5-041, partial capture LOV-106H
W5-042, partial capture LOV-119H, 117M
W5-043, partial capture LOV-123M, complete capture 124H
W5-044, complete capture LOV-126H, 124M
W5-045, complete capture LOV-125H, 123M
W5-046, complete capture LOV-124H
W5-047, partial capture LOV-128M, complete capture 129H
W5-048, partial capture LOV-127M, complete capture 128H
W5-049, partial capture LOV-126M, 127H
W5-050, partial capture LOV-127H (completes image), partial capture 126H, complete image 125M
Today we have run several tapes but we are jumping sequence due to our having captured several tapes between W5-53-62. I need to verify all of them before we leave them behind though. Will report on our progress today at the end of the day. Looks like we will do about ten tapes today and get us up to W5-70, if everything holds together.
LOIRP Status Report 22 July 2013
Dennis Wingo: We are running tape today. Here is a scan of a document that I am using to plan the sequence of tape runs. at the top of the page it shows the proportion of the time one ground station was in range of Lunar Orbiter V. Woomera had the majority of the time so we are starting with it. Then Goldstone, and then finally Madrid. There was some duplicate scans during the final readout that overlapped the priority readout data. Thus it is our hope that we will get most of our scans from Woomera and Goldstone and will have to run only a few Madrid tapes. Time will tell. Click on image to enlarge.
LOIRP Status Report 15 July 2013
Dennis Wingo: We’re going to get started today on LO-V tapes, slowly at first. Also, we have shipped, as of last Friday, all of our fulfillment for the Rockethub goodies, except for those that did not respond to our email asking for information that we need to complete the shipment. We still have 46 people that have not completed our requests for information. Before the last email it was 109 people, so we had about 60% response last time. I will post those email addresses here and I will send emails to each person and will post on rockethub. Those that do not respond after this time, we will close down the fulfillment. If in six months someone comes in we will of course try and get you your goodies.
LOIRP Status Report 11 July 2013
Dennis Wingo: Neulyn Moss gets the LOIRP Geek of the Month award for her dazzling ensemble that includes a picture of Buzz Aldrin descending to the surface of the Moon! — with Neulyn Golden Moss. Larger image
Yesterday we found another tape that had some missing framelets and reran it, G2-080. After some wrap up tomorrow we are going to start running Lunar Orbiter V tapes on Monday! We are going to follow our path of running all of the Woomera tapes first. We have no idea how long our last head is going to hold out but we are going to run as much as we can!
LOIRP Status Report 6 July 2013
Dennis Wingo: Austin has been wrapping up the accounting of the captures from Lunar Orbiter II so that we can begin putting together the back end image reconstruction and to capture any frames or framelets that were gakked during capture. We had to recapture G2-061 and M2-019. These will be processed and the framelets entered into the database. If these are the last tapes then sometime this week we will begin captures of the Woomera tapes from LO-V.
The next steps are image reconstruction, then handing those images over to the folks at NLSI for integration into their online database. We are also starting to put together the image analysis to compare our LOII images with similar images taken by the LRO LROC camera to look for new craters. Our student Neulyn Moss has advanced her studies in college and is now starting to learn matlab so that we can do some automation of some of our previous more manual methods of cross referencing images. The new software by the Arizona State done by Mark Robinson’s LROC team is going to be very helpful as well. The Quickmap software by their team is a very impressive piece of software for lunar data analysis. Have a look at http://target.lroc.asu.edu/q3/# I invite all of you who are interested in the Moon to play with their product.
Looks like Neulyn and I are going to be doing the Planetary Data System submittal when our student who volunteered got pulled into a lot more work at Ames and has little free time to help. This is all for now.
LOIRP Status Report 25 June 2013
Dennis WIngo: We’re on a hiatus while we wrap up the loose ends of Lunar Orbiter II. Austin is painstakingly going through all of the captures and all of the images to make sure that we have everything and to find where we may have a gap or two that we can close in an image by re-running a tape. This will be complete by the end of this week and we can run any residual tapes and then recalibrate the FR-900 for the Woomera Lunar Orbiter V tapes.
LOIRP Status Report 20 June 2013
Dennis Wingo: WE ARE DONE WITH LUNAR ORBITER II PRIMARY CAPTURES!. All we have to do is some clean up of a few gakked framelets.
Here are the final tapes and images captured.
M2-089, partial capture LOII-2049H
M2-090, partial capture LOII-2047M, complete capture 2048H
M2-091, partial capture LOII-2046M, complete capture 2047H
M2-092, partial capture LOII-2045M, partial capture 2046H (completes image)
M2-093, Not Used, redundant with Woomera Tape
M2-094, partial capture LOII-2045H (Completes image)
M2-095, partial capture LOII-2043M, complete capture 2044H, 2042M
M2-096, complete capture LOII-2043H
M2-097, partial capture LOII-2041M, partial capture 2042H (completes image)
It will take several days to get everything into the back end queue and figure out what our final capture rate is, but it looks like we only had five bad tapes out of over 300 LOII tapes for about a 99% capture percentage, which is astounding considering how long it had been since these had been originally recorded.
More next week when we start on LO-V!
LOIRP Status Report 19 June 2013
Dennis Wingo: Mid afternoon 6-19-13. We almost had a catastrophe yesterday. These tapes sometimes shed large chunks of oxide and this happened on tape M-91, one of the Scotch tapes. We had been observing a lot of shedding of material and that had clogged up the vacuum system, which Ken cleaned out. However, there was a large chunk wedged between the control track head (which is a separate head used to read the servo information) and the tape guide. This disrupted the geometry of the tape and contributed to getting a short length of tape sliced in two. It also created a terrible head clog (which kills all the signal from the tape from a single head of the four).
Ken disassembled the head, found the foreign matter and removed it. He also had to re-align the control track head and use a strong solvent to remove the foreign matter from one of the head tips. We are back up and running as of this afternoon as I had to go to the DMV today and in California that takes forever.
We did two tapes yesterday before the problems and I am on one today right now. It is late in the day but we should be able to finish our Madrid Scotch tape captures before I head off on a short vacation to go backpacking in the high Sierras.