I am working on a texture for Charon, including some pre New Horizons data from mutual events (Hubble data showed no details on Charon). This is what I found:
I wonder where the point is that faces Pluto. I'm getting very mixed results from research. John van Vliet's texture seems to be misaligned by 180° compared to Celestia'a default texture. The coordinate system of the image above also implies Celestia's default to be misaligned, but I also found maps with a coordinate system shifted by 180°.
Charon Texture
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it depends on the image and where it was posted
in the motherload add ons it is -180 to +180 ( all Mark buil at.el. start at 270 to 0 to 90 to 180 to 270 )
but most are using 0 to 360
until New Horizons images and the New prime-meridian
for the old Charon, i used this paper
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/139/3/1128
this is -180 to 0 to +180
in the motherload add ons it is -180 to +180 ( all Mark buil at.el. start at 270 to 0 to 90 to 180 to 270 )
but most are using 0 to 360
until New Horizons images and the New prime-meridian
for the old Charon, i used this paper
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/139/3/1128
this is -180 to 0 to +180
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Topic authorFarGetaNik
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