Springtime for Uranus

[eburacum45]

Uranus seems to change quite markedly from winter/summer to spring/autumn seasons; it has many more clouds now than it did when Voyager had its close encounter-
see here
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/1/2 ... ry003.html
and here;
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/u ... 41110.html

I have made experimental textures from these images, and these are the results;




they are a bit stripy where they have been stretched, and the clouds are not in quite the right position, but they will serve nicely as extrasolar planets.

Three questions-
how do you make the rings more visible?
why are the images such different colours?
and three-
is there any known catch with this image hosting service I have discovered-
http://tinypic.com/

??

[Guest]

Yes; there does seem to be a problem; both images are the same... one should be blue, and one green.

[eburacum45]

I'll try again; for some reason the images are getting mixed up at Tinypic.com

This should be the blue one

[Planet X]

Yeah, I would definately like to get Uranus to look like that last picture posted. So, just how do you get Uranus's rings more visible?

[PlutonianEmpire]

I'll try again; for some reason the images are getting mixed up at Tinypic.com

Try imageshack (in my sig)

[Kolano]

Are you sure the differences in color you see are not due to the images being taken with cameras that capture different wave-lengths of light. The change seems too dramatic to be real.

Having a texture with the clouds / light patches would be nice though.