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I've found those Jupiter rings from John's site :

http://johnscelestiapage.no-ip.com/filemgmt/index.php

Are they realistic ? I think they are way exagerated. Any opinion ? Where are the most realistic rings for Jupiter ?

I have the rings from one of Frank's addons...I think they may be a bit more transparent, although I think it depends a lot on how you've got your graphics set up!

Regards...bh.

I think one of the best was of Praesepe??s in http://www.la.guarida-com/Celestia
It seems very accurate for me.

hi two days ago i updated the rings to be the correct size

but as for there transparency ?
I still want to be able to see them but only very faintly

i do tend to go for an artistic look rather than being 100% correct

Pardon the intrusion from the Brain-Dead, but aren't Jupiter's Rings
(The REAL Rings!) depicted more accurately by the following image?

I got these rings after a very painstaking search of a myriad of scientific
web sites, and after questioning someone I trust implicitly in such matters,
(Grant Hutchison).

Are you telling me that Jupiter now has Saturn-Like rings?
I learned in my travels that Jupiter's rings are very tenuous, and very
difficult to see under the best circumstances. Am I wrong here?



Thanks, Ol' Brain-Dead

The Braindead One is correct, those rings are far more like the real Jupiter rings. In fact, a good layout of the rings can be found here

But to the naked eye, they are pretty much homogenous in appearance; indeed, they are almost entirely invisible, except when backlit by the sun.

...John...

I cant even see any rings on mine. Yet in previous versions of Celestia I could see a very feint line.

the link that dollan gave is what i used for the size
but i go for an artistic look rather than a 100% correct
and no these arn't saturn like they are very wispy and thin

but to each there own

the look fine

Yeah, they look fine for an artistic endeavor. I didn't mean to criticize, by the way, sorry if it sounded like it. And considering that I still haven't been able to figure out how to make the things yet (all of my attempts have been failures most miserable), I can only say that these rings look great!

...John...

Dollan wrote:And considering that I still haven't been able to figure out how to make the things yet (all of my attempts have been failures most miserable), I can only say that these rings look great!

Well, if you like, I can e-mail you a copy of the Jupiter realistic rings. Just
say the word...

Personally, I want my Celestia experience to show me as much of the
realistic universe as I can get. That's just me though. I've also found
that most of the real things in the universe are far stranger than
fiction anyway.

I also didn't mean to criticize John's work. I had just assumed that he was
another of those rocket scientists who was now telling me that Jupiter had
Saturn-like rings.

You already know that I'm Brain-Dead, so just consider the source.

Take care, Bob

I agree totally with Bob, the real things out there are far more strange than anything from the human mind.

What about, the Sulfur plasma torus formed by Io?
could that be rendered?