Furthest recorded planet from its sun...0.9 ly distant...
http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/Jax.jpg
As you can see I decided to use the bumpy planet for something else...and I must say it looks far better!
http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/jax2.jpg
And Kur looks like this now...
http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/kur2.jpg
More to come...
Alcyone (Pleiades) system 4 planets
Alcyone (Pleiades) system 4 planets
Last edited by Rassilon on 31.01.2002, 19:24, edited 2 times in total.
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
Jax uses a modified ganymede texture...Kur is using a custom of mine...
Yeah I guess there is no lower than absolute zero, just a glitch...Maybe where it computes the temp...put it through a filter..
if temp < 0 temp = 0
-or-
case < 0
temp = 0
or something....
Yeah I guess there is no lower than absolute zero, just a glitch...Maybe where it computes the temp...put it through a filter..
if temp < 0 temp = 0
-or-
case < 0
temp = 0
or something....
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
Also I had the Albedo at 5.12!!! I guess you use that to measure the amount of frozen product on a planet in a sense along with illumination?
Anyway I lowered it to 0.12 and the Kelvin raised to 6...burr still cold
Anyway I lowered it to 0.12 and the Kelvin raised to 6...burr still cold
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
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Also I had the Albedo at 5.12!!! I guess you use that to measure the amount of frozen product on a planet in a sense along with illumination?
Ah . . . that explains it! The albedo should always be between 0 and 1. A perfectly absorbing planet has an albedo of 0 and a perfectly reflecting planet has an albedo of 1. The Earth's albedo is about 0.3, which means that it reflects 30% of the light it receives from the Sun, though this will vary someone depending on the current degree of cloud cover. Venus's global cloud system is a good reflector, so Venus has rather high albedo of 0.77. The most reflective body in the solar system is Saturn's moon Enceladus. Its clean icy surface reflects 99 percent of incident light. A planet with a high albedo will reflect light that would otherwise be absorbed and heat its surface; therefore, raising the albedo of a planet will lower its surface temperature.
--Chris