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Simeon Schmauß
@stim3on.bsky.social
dabbling with photogrammetry, astrophotography, GIS and more...

https://sschmaus.github.io/links/
One reason why I've never really done any #JWST processing was the awful 1/f noise (banding) that's typical to the Stage 3 products from MAST.
I finally got around to installing the JWST pipeline locally, and reprocess these data with tweaked parameters. 🔭
October 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Well, forget what I said, turns out you can process marsrover images on the train too :)

There is a super faint smudge where comet 3I/Atlas should be. The new orbit parameters in Stellarium are a pretty good match. 🔭 #3iatlas
October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here I have stacked the ten available observations from Mastcam-Z to bring out even more stars.

Comet 3I/Atlas is also in the frame, but unfortunately I wasn't able to pull it out of the noise...
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover attempted to photograph the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas from the surface of Mars.

A first look at the image sequence shows some stars in the constellation Hercules where 3I/Atlas is currently located. 🔭
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The overexposed area can be recovered by going down to the l1b products. They contain the individual frame groups that make up a JWST integration which is part of one exposure...
The paper used only the first groups which weren't overexposed.

mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashu...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM