Ben Gutknecht
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Ben Gutknecht
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Geophysicist, geodesy, global water cycle, sealevel, tectonics, GRACE/-FO, gravimetry, spaceflight, science-to-music converter. Researcher at UBonn. Views are my own.
September 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is exactly why my multiexposure of the eclipse last night still had an overlap — since I had completely neglected lunar motion around Earth in a 128 sec gap estimate. Mun moves on orbit 3% the length of its body-dia in the meantime. Andrew's pic is brilliant, just wonder why shadow static(?)
September 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Or /iow: waiting longer btw the Moon shots makes the disk 'move' further to the up right b/c camera on Earth has rotated further (24h/day), but at the same time the Mun also had a slight shift to the left on its 28d-journey around Earth. Hence, relative rotation appears 3-4% slower than 2π/24h. 2/2
September 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nerd-fact: I had roughly estimated from lunar diameter, distance, +Earth rotation that 130s would be just enough to get clear lunar 'disks':
128s=atan(dia/dist)/(2π/24h).
But I neglected lunar counter rotation around Earth, which adds a few seconds to the bill. That's why the disks overlap a bit 1/2
September 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So you are saying the enforced d(TWS)/dt — instead of ET + Q — temporarily balances a grand part of the P? 🤭
(rather runoff/surface flow than Q...)
July 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This work contains work from #globalCDA and is a collaboration with WWF @wwf.eu
June 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Good job.
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Officially yes :-|
But I can still load projects 🤷
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Do the groundtracks include model dynamics, d(mean anomaly)/dt, or are they based on the latest TLE? (Rhetorical Q: would we see the difference on such a map?)
May 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM