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Seeing as there's a thread elsewhere asking for (among other things) an improved sun/star texture, I'd thought i'd be a good idea to post this sun texture based on real data (the current star texture in Celestia isn't, I think). It looks quite impressive in Celestia, similar to real astronomical photos. How realistic it is, I don't know... does anyone think it'd be a good idea to use this texture in the Celestia release? I'm sure the author would agree for us to use it.

http://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/suncyl1.htm

(note: is it just me, or did Rassilon make a series of star textures based on this a while back?)

Sum0 wrote:Seeing as there's a thread elsewhere asking for (among other things) an improved sun/star texture, I'd thought i'd be a good idea to post this sun texture based on real data (the current star texture in Celestia isn't, I think). It looks quite impressive in Celestia, similar to real astronomical photos. How realistic it is, I don't know... does anyone think it'd be a good idea to use this texture in the Celestia release? I'm sure the author would agree for us to use it.

http://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/suncyl1.htm

That looks like the sun's surface as seen through a hydrogen alpha filter. I imagine we want to use a texture that represents what the sun looks like in visible light in Celestia... still, it wouldn't hurt using it as an alternate texture for the sun, if that's possible?

while this texture is using the familiar SOHO data in one way or another, it is clearly designated by its author as artistic.

Bye Fridger