Satellite Image - Time & Date Announcement

Gatecrasher · Post by **Gatecrasher** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:58 am

The Date & Time for this years IKONOS satellite image of Black Rock City has been set, the best available date is:

Thursday, 31-Aug-2006 11:48am
(18:48:58 GMT)

If you want to do something simple, you can draw in the desert using 10' wide black tarps held down with yard staples, or look at the Project Megapixels thread.

Here is a link to last years picture.

Cheers everyone, can't wait to see you all on the playa.

Gatecrasher

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:30 am

Can't wait to be there!

Any word on if it'll be at a higher resoluton this year? I loved last years, but was hard to pick out some of the camps.

And... I WANT A PRINT! How do we go about getting one?

bb

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:29 pm

You can buy last years image through here:

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iow ... /index.htm

Post by **trilobyte** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:54 pm

You could also click the picture that Gatecrasher posted. It links you to the larger photo on Flickr. Craftier still, at the top of the page you can click on the higher resolution photo, something like 5800x4800 resolution (link). Ooh, I can see my camp (9:30 & Bi-Polar)!

Thank you for posting the info and pic, Gatecrasher!

~Trilo~

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:50 pm

Holy crap! I can actually see the top of my tent in that version.

Jordan 10-E · Post by **Jordan 10-E** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:07 pm

That photo is amazing.

I have not read what time and day this was taken, but I can tell you that it was taken on saturday, most likely around 11 in the morning.

I can see our camp at 4:30 and Bipolar very well.

dj_john69 · Post by **dj_john69** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:03 pm

Awesome picture...i can see my camp quite well from last year.

~John

falk · Post by **falk** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:32 pm

Look due south of center camp, between Catharsis and Ego -- looks like someone made the Burning Man logo. I wonder if that was on purpose.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:38 pm

time was almost 12:00. Hokey Pokey Camp did the dance at noon. There is a ring of folks in the 3:00 plaza dancing the hokey pokey

Post by **trilobyte** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:55 pm

falk, as I understood it that was completely intentional.

~Trilo~

Gatecrasher · Post by **Gatecrasher** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:37 pm

Guess what I've got...... ;-) It will take a small amount of time to process, but it looks like a clean shot.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:03 pm

Cool. I was worried about the light clouds.

I'm actually hoping the image I made doesn't show up well. It'll take the pressure off.

BTW, I'm instructing everyone I know to beat me senseless with a 2x4 if I even mention doing an art project in 07.

Gatecrasher · Post by **Gatecrasher** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:07 pm

The source image is much larger, and I of coure, didn't color balance it well, so I'll probably post some sort of an update, but here's the camp itself. Leave me comments in Flickr (or here). Cheers!

(click on the photo to see it in flickr, and don't forget to look at it in original size!)

Gatecrasher

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:56 am

Cool. The N is clearly visible to the right of the Cathedral. Some of the colors in the arrow are visible, but they're pretty indistinct. The Chinese dragon coming up from esplanade toward the man along 6 is much more visible.

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:36 am

Ok, how does one view it in the original size? I can't get it to work.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:02 am

Click the "All Sizes" button above the image.

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:48 am

You have to login to see it and I rarely login to those accounts anymore. But it works now.

Edit: There must be something wrong, last year I could zoom down to tent level...even with the largest image off that link it starts turning into blocks of pixels pretty quick...6 pc's, CRT's to LCD's to projection, it still looks bad close up.

Bah, maybe something better will come along. After last year I'm disappointed in this image. I hope it was free or someone got screwed.

Gatecrasher · Post by **Gatecrasher** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:23 pm

It could be that you didn't wait long enough for it to load. The file is interlaced, so it will start out blocky and get better and better as it fills in. It is a big big file.

It should be exactly the same quality as last years picture, which I posted at the head of this thread.

It wasn't free, but I don't think I got screwed, since I was aware of the quality going in. :-)

Gatercrasher

Unfront · Post by **Unfront** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:40 pm

I was able to see the photo on flickr. However, I was not able to zoom. What is the original url for this photo (of BM 2006?)

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:52 pm

KIV, in comparing like elements (Center Camp), I see the same level of detail. The new image does seem to need some tweaking yet, as Gatecrasher said earlier, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.

ETA: WOW! Look at the line for Artica

Gatecrasher · Post by **Gatecrasher** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:41 pm

Rumor has it that an air photo company took super-high-resolution aerial photos of the area.

I don't know if they will make that public, or use it for some insideous money-making entreprise....

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:27 am

...this looks like 2005 to me....

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:42 am

I think I located where I was camped..., and this was my first year. Anyway, there is that weird bulge in 4:00 near the outtermost ring, so I think that this is this year's photo. (As far as I can tell, I must have created the bulge by parking a bit further in than I had intended, but not so far in that anyone was willing to camp on the street side of me. It was kind of nice having a "front lawn".

)

B.

skibear · Post by **skibear** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:14 am

This image of BM 2005 pans and zooms well:
repost
http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/zoo ... ent%202005

if this helps, a shorter version of same;

http://tinyurl.com/9vg2v

Jordan 10-E · Post by **Jordan 10-E** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:17 am

The new photo is definately of 2006.

A_delle · Post by **A_delle** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:55 am

nice picture - just as I remember it! For all those doubting thomases, it IS 2006 because of the 4:30 and 7:30 plazas, as well as the obvious large art installations. skepticism never ceases to amaze me.

a nice revisit to HOME!

thanks!
A_delle

skibear · Post by **skibear** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:40 pm

I also can view the 2006 photo on flickr. But can't see any
way to zoom to origional size.

mars · Post by **mars** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:33 pm

Something doesn't quite make sense...the Chinese Dragon was put together starting at 2pm on Thursday and made it's way down toward Center Camp around 4pm. So how can it have been just before noon?

SnowBlind · Post by **SnowBlind** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:27 am

skibear wrote:I also can view the 2006 photo on flickr. But can't see any
way to zoom to origional size.

I think you need to be logged into flickr.

oleg8888 · Post by **oleg8888** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:58 pm

mars wrote:Something doesn't quite make sense...the Chinese Dragon was put together starting at 2pm on Thursday and made it's way down toward Center Camp around 4pm. So how can it have been just before noon?

They did a "test drive" righ around noon, I saw them

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