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| Fireinthehole | Date: Friday, 23.10.2015, 21:24 | Message # 136 |
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| Franz, will you upload your Pluto texture in the addons thread? It looks gorgeous. 
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| JohnVV | Date: Saturday, 31.10.2015, 06:51 | Message # 137 |
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Franz, what bump height values do you use? I'm trying to make normal maps of your textures for use in Celestia, although I don't know which would be the best values to use.
using a shaded image as a height map , never works out well
once the Pluto / Charon STEREO images are released a heightmap will be released
but for only about 1/2 of the small body that was imaged
Now Charon works well for using some ( shape from shade) SFS
but Pluto -- stereo data ONLY for the most part
see the UnmanedSpaceflight forum for the 3d renders of the jpg's that nasa posted
Charon
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8072
posts
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8072&view=findpost&p=226749
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8072&view=findpost&p=227012
-- best image for using SFS so far
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8072&view=findpost&p=227371
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8072&view=findpost&p=227404
Pluto is so UN UNIFORM in it's Albedo
a EARLY trial picking the BEST image to use
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8103&view=findpost&p=227606
this did NOT turn out well
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8103&view=findpost&p=227569
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| GlenStevensTD | Date: Saturday, 05.12.2015, 08:38 | Message # 138 |
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| New Horizons Update
Nix with higher resolution
Styx!
Kerberos!
Pluto rotation
Charon rotation
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| LookAtDatDakka | Date: Saturday, 05.12.2015, 17:02 | Message # 139 |
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| ANOTHER UPDATE
Look at the mosaic:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites....ers.jpg
Will HarbingerDawn colorized this mosaic and post it?
Won't post actual image to the post because it's too big.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 05.12.2015, 19:05 | Message # 140 |
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| Quote LookAtDatDakka (  ) Will HarbingerDawn colorized this mosaic and post it?
Probably not. I have yet to colorize and post anything at all.
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| steeljaw354 | Date: Thursday, 10.12.2015, 21:01 | Message # 141 |
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| Pluto is my favorite planet, ALL planets haven't cleared there orbits
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 10.12.2015, 22:48 | Message # 142 |
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| Planets cleared their orbits of comparably massed bodies, making them unique in their orbital space [this is what this part of the IAU definition of planet actually means]. Pluto hasn't achieved this. It is a member of a large number of very similar objects -- the Kuiper Belt.
Pluto is my favorite object in the solar system though. Cold, distant, but with incredibly fascinating geology and atmosphere. 
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| PlutonianEmpire | Date: Thursday, 10.12.2015, 23:57 | Message # 143 |
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| Nuh uh! Pluto IS a planet! 
Just kidding. 
But yeah, fascinating world indeed. Blew all my expectations when NH arrived
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| steeljaw354 | Date: Friday, 11.12.2015, 00:04 | Message # 144 |
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| Pluto is my favorite planet No matter what they say, I don't care ALL PLANETS haven't cleared there orbits, look at the near earth asteroids. Pluto and ceres are planets to me , a planet of every type (rocky,asteroid like, gas,ice dwarf) The new images are cool, how are those images NOT of a planet?! They gotta rethink the definetion and set a size limit, classify by size not by location! at least a size of 2000 Km for objects that may be discovered in the future.
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| Watsisname | Date: Friday, 11.12.2015, 00:20 | Message # 145 |
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| Same here. I was expecting it to be kind of boring, but it is anything but. 
Heh, I remember my advisor reflecting on his reaction to the first images of the outer planets from the Voyager missions.
Jupiter: WOW! Look at those clouds!
Saturn: So beautiful... 
Uranus: What? Are you kidding me? :[
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| JackDole | Date: Friday, 11.12.2015, 07:29 | Message # 146 |
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| I have nothing against the classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. I think he can be proud to be the first of a class of its own.
Additional classifications to the well-known like planet, asteroid, comet, makes perfect sense.
But I find the reasoning, Pluto had not 'cleared' its orbit; stupid. He has cleared his path, as far as it was possible, with its mass.
By the same reasoning, one could say, Jupiter is not a planet, because he has neither the asteroid belt, nor Saturn 'cleared'. He is not massive enough. If he had 12 times the mass; he would then still not be a brown dwarf, he might have the asteroid belt, maybe Saturn 'cleared'.
And he is a member of a group of similar objects, even though this group has only two members, himself and Saturn. 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 11.12.2015, 08:32 | Message # 147 |
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| Quote JackDole ( ) By the same reasoning, one could say, Jupiter is not a planet, because he has neither the asteroid belt, nor Saturn 'cleared'.
The asteroid belt and Saturn do not cross Jupiter's orbit. In fact, the asteroid belt exists BECAUSE of Jupiter's gravity, which proves its gravitational dominance.
Quote JackDole ( ) And he is a member of a group of similar objects, even though this group has only two members, himself and Saturn.
I think it's difficult to argue that a group of two objects should be considered a fundamentally different category of objects when most populations considered thusly are composed of millions of objects.
Anyway this is getting off-topic for this thread, there is another thread about the definition of "planet" that could be used.
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| Watsisname | Date: Friday, 11.12.2015, 10:27 | Message # 148 |
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| ^I second that. The other thread on defining planethood had some really excellent discussion; I highly recommend it.
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| Wicker1M | Date: Saturday, 12.12.2015, 00:18 | Message # 149 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) Heh, I remember my advisor reflecting on his reaction to the first images of the outer planets from the Voyager missions.
Jupiter: WOW! Look at those clouds!
Saturn: So beautiful... cry
Uranus: What? Are you kidding me? :[
Hahaha! It seems that the universe pulled a joke on your advisor. The planet Uranus does look rather dull compared to Saturn and Jupiter.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 12.12.2015, 00:30 | Message # 150 |
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| Quote Wicker1M ( ) The planet Uranus does look rather dull compared to Saturn and Jupiter.
At least it did at the time of the Voyager flyby.
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