New Enceladus texture from Ciclops map
Posted: 04.10.2008, 23:20
Hi, all. I have made a rather nice Enceladus surface texture based on Ciclops August map, and colorized to match Ciclops "natural color" images. It can be downloaded as an add-on package form my webpage in the form of a zipfile. There is a readme and references included, together with 4K, 2K and 1K textures. I am attaching the reademe file and the 1K jpg file here. Enjoy.
Guillermo
Guillermo
ENCELADUS FROM CASSINI IMAGES
This is a high resolution surface texture of Saturn's moon Enceladus, based on the map released on 6 August 2008 by Ciclops (http://ciclops.org). See Map of Enceladus - Ciclops.txt for details about the map, which is based on Cassini and Voyager images. Follow the url file to visit Ciclops release.
The subtle color is derived from Cassini images that Ciclops reports as close to natural colors (http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=931 and http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=5200). It is much less saturated than equivalent Voyager pictures (and the official Celestia as of version 1.5.1).
Enceladus is extremely reflective and would appear as snow to the naked eye. This map contains much detail, contrast and color would be impossible to see in that way. Think of it as a view of Enceladus through neutral sunglasses.
According to Ciclops, there is a shift to the west compared to the previous version, to comply with the IAU definition of longitude of the satellite.
The 4k texture is a blow-up of the original 3600 one. It just looks much more the original than the 2k one. You may just delete it if you wish.
INSTALLATION
Unzip the contents of the zip file inside the Extras folder of Celestia. You may use a subfolder of Extras, also (e.g. Extras/SolarSystem/Saturn/Enceladus). Celestia will find it.
USAGE
On Celestia, go to Enceladus. Right click and select Alternate Surfaces, and choose Enceladus (Ciclops). Celestia will choose either the 4k, 2k or 1k versions, depending on your current resolution setting (change with r and R).
ALTERNATIVE USAGE
If you prefer to replace Dione default surface with this one, edit enceladus-ciclops.ssc and uncomment (remove the #) from the line with the Modify directive, and comment (add a #) in front of the AltSurface one.
CREDITS
This texture is Ciclops' map of Enceladus as of 6th Audust 2008. Adapted for Celestia by Guillermo Abramson (http://cabfst28.cnea.gov.ar).
Find about Celestia at http://celestiaproject.net/celestia.