What's wrong with comets ?

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What's wrong with comets ?

Post #1by Cham » 20.08.2012, 01:10

This isn't exactly a bug, but what's wrong with this comet rendering ?

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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #2by Cham » 20.08.2012, 13:15

Don't you see it ? It's obvious !
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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #3by Cham » 20.08.2012, 16:41

If you don't see the problem, I'm wondering why you're using Celestia (ahaa, Star Trek crap ! It's really doing dammages for the appreciation of real astronomy).

That comet rendering is HUGE (see the Earth's orbit).
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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #4by PlutonianEmpire » 20.08.2012, 18:44

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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #5by Hungry4info » 20.08.2012, 19:45

Celestia just scales the tail with the temperature of the nucleus IIRC. So I would expect this sort of rendering, even if it is, as you mention, unrealistic. Not sure what exactly one would do about it.

And for the record, I, too, am tiring of the saturation of this forum with Star Trek material. This is coming from a ST fan, too.
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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #6by VikingTechJPL » 20.08.2012, 22:12

"The Maximum Length of Comet Tails and Some Considerations on Their Classification."

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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #7by John Van Vliet » 21.08.2012, 08:44

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Re: What's wrong with comets ?

Post #8by Hungry4info » 21.08.2012, 14:26

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