Thebe Crater Location

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Thebe Crater Location

Post #1by Brendan » 05.01.2004, 06:17

The crater Zethus on Thebe was mentioned so I tried to put a location for it on Thebe.

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Location "Zethus" "Sol/Jupiter/Thebe"
{
   LongLat [ -175 10 0 ]
   Size 40
   Type "AA"
}


But I can't see it. 3ds models can have locations on them because I saw one on Phobos and one on Proteus. :?

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Post #2by granthutchison » 05.01.2004, 08:15

Two potential problems:
1) At present, Locations display 180 degrees out of longitude alignment on 3ds objects, so you need to make that a longitude of -355 to position the label correctly.
2) If you're using Jestr's model, its principal axes may not be aligned to the Celestia standard, so more tweaking might be required.

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Post #3by jestr » 05.01.2004, 15:18

For a quick fix ,change the z coordinate from 0 to 5 or 10,sometimes the labels are under surface of the models.I just tried your code with my latest model of Thebe
http://www.geocities.com/jestrjestr/extras
and it works OK,though maybe not bang in the middle of the crater.Cheers Jestr


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