Sorry about the grammar, but I?m quite tired right now... *yawn*
This evening i was reading an article about the planet osiris (HD 209458b), the only planet outside our solar system that we have been able to measure an atmosphere for.
My question is now, do we know so much about this planets atmosphere that we can create a special texture for it? I?m not a scientist, but we know that the atmosphere consists of sodium, hydrogen, oxygen and carbon and, as far as I understand, this also determines the appearance of the planet. The reason I ask this is that the planet, as beeing the only extrasolar planet with an known atmosphere, is quite unique and would be interesting to have in Celestia.
HD 209458b (Osiris)
I created a really simple add-on for this planet, you need the empty.3ds model from http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/empty.3ds for this to work properly although I suspect not having this file will have much the same effect.
Save the following code to a .ssc file in the extras directory:
I am not going to even try to defend the realism of this though, it just looks approximately right on my system...
Save the following code to a .ssc file in the extras directory:
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"b Atmosphere Evaporation" "HD 209458" # V376 Peg
{
Class "comet"
Mesh "empty.3ds"
Radius 0.42 # to get the comet tail the right size
InfoURL "http://www2.iap.fr/exoplanetes/index_en.html"
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.0097
SemiMajorAxis 0.044103
Eccentricity 0
Inclination 71.7
AscendingNode 325.1
ArgOfPericenter 205
MeanAnomaly 148
}
Albedo 0
}
I am not going to even try to defend the realism of this though, it just looks approximately right on my system...
