Exoplanet textures of Science on a Sphere by NOAA in Celestia

[DrJMOS]

Hi celestians, this new post is to import to Celestia some exoplanet textures that appear in the webpage Science on a Sphere (NOAA)

STEPS:

1. Install the exoplanets addon by Sirius Alpha in Celestia
2. Copy the next folder called kepler and paste inside of Celestia/Extras folder (each folder content media files and folders have a lot of data)

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ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/astronomy/kepler/

3. Inside each planet folder appear a file called 4096.* (4k rectangular texture) Example:

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celestia/extras/kepler/earthlike/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler09b/4096.png
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler10b/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler22b/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler37b/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler47c/4096.jpg

4. Create textures/medres folders in each folder and move inside each 4096.* file, example:

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celestia/extras/kepler/earthlike/textures/medres/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler09b/textures/medres/4096.png
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler10b/textures/medres/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler22b/textures/medres/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler37b/textures/medres/4096.jpg
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler47c/textures/medres/4096.jpg

5. Create with notepad the *.SSC file in each folder (i will create all codes to ssc files during next days here too)

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celestia/extras/kepler/earthlike/earthlike.ssc
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler09b/kepler09b.ssc
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler10b/kepler10b.ssc
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler22b/kepler22b.ssc
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler37b/kepler37b.ssc
celestia/extras/kepler/kepler47c/kepler47c.ssc

Some codes to create SSC files:
code to kepler10b.ssc

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Modify "b" "Kepler-10"
{
   Texture "4096.jpg"
   NightTexture "4096.jpg"
   UniformRotation
   {
      Inclination 89.421978
      AscendingNode 282.724262
        MeridianAngle 90
   }
}

code to kepler37b.ssc

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Modify "b" "Kepler-37"
{
   Texture "4096.jpg"
}

code to kepler47c.ssc

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Modify "c" "Kepler-47"
{
   Texture "4096.jpg"
}

Examples:

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[DrJMOS]

earthlike.ssc code

KOI-4878.01
KOI-7179.01
KOI-7235.01

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"KOI-4878.01:(unconfirmed)" "KOI-4878"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "4096.*"
   GeomAlbedo 0.11
   Radius 6626
   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch 2454977.707
      Period 1.229336
      SemiMajorAxis 1.137
      Inclination 83.66976
      AscendingNode 284.93504
      ArgOfPericenter 162.61633
      MeanAnomaly 90
   }
   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
      Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
      Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
      Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
      Mie 0.001
      MieAsymmetry -0.25
      Rayleigh [ 0.001 0.0025 0.006 ]
      MieScaleHeight 12
   }
   UniformRotation
   {
      Period 16.106328
      Inclination 83.66976
      AscendingNode 284.93504
   }
   LunarLambert 1.0
   InfoURL "http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02825v1"
}

"KOI-7179.01:(unconfirmed)" "KOI-7179"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "4096.*"
   GeomAlbedo 0.11
   Radius 7518
   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch 2455342.257
      Period 1.114707
      SemiMajorAxis 1.0765
      Inclination 79.66553
      AscendingNode 295.32268
      ArgOfPericenter 157.12761
      MeanAnomaly 90
   }
   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
      Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
      Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
      Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
      Mie 0.001
      MieAsymmetry -0.25
      Rayleigh [ 0.001 0.0025 0.006 ]
      MieScaleHeight 12
   }
   UniformRotation
   {
      Period 10.55078
      Inclination 79.66553
      AscendingNode 295.32268
   }
   LunarLambert 1.0
   InfoURL "http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02825v1"
}

"KOI-7235.01:(unconfirmed)" "KOI-7235"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "4096.*"
   GeomAlbedo 0.11
   Radius 7327
   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch 2455193.394
      Period 0.820553
      SemiMajorAxis 0.8252
      Inclination 83.33891
      AscendingNode 285.68276
      ArgOfPericenter 159.20401
      MeanAnomaly 90
   }
   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
      Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
      Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
      Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
      Mie 0.001
      MieAsymmetry -0.25
      Rayleigh [ 0.001 0.0025 0.006 ]
      MieScaleHeight 12
   }
   UniformRotation
   {
      Period 10.55078
      Inclination 83.33891
      AscendingNode 285.68276
   }
   LunarLambert 1.0
   InfoURL "http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02825v1"
}