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Very recently I derived this set of exoplanetary albedo maps from the phase curve data presented in Shporer and Hu (2015). There is no color, only black and white, because phase curves were presented only in the Kepler band (wavelength 598nm). Black areas are unmapped under the assumption that the planets are tidally locked, which is likely to be the case.

Here is a small addon that adds these maps to Celestia. Sirius_Alpha's catalog of exoplanets is required for installation. The ones that were added are the raw maps on the left of the diagram.

how tf did u do this?

Kepler-7b map will be EXTREAMLY usefull for me (grand voyage...oh yeah..need to get back into that)

All of the information required to make the maps was in the paper linked, which provided boundaries for the clouded longitudes.

Another thing is that these maps may not necessarily be correct. This is the simplest model that is consistent with the observation but it's possible that a more complicated phase curve model could also be correct.