Planet Temperatures?

Slartibartfast · Post #1by **Slartibartfast** » 05.01.2008, 01:37

How does Celestia calculate a planet's temperature? I went to great lengths to ensure my planets are in their goldilock's zones... yet their temps aren't right.

Hungry4info · Post #2by **Hungry4info** » 05.01.2008, 02:59

You can modify the albedo. This is a measure of how much energy planet reflects. An albedo of 1.0 means that it reflects 100% of the energy it gets, this will cause Celestia to render it as absolute zero. Setting an albedo of 0 makes it absorb all the energy, making rather higher temperatures. Assigning a negative albedo will make it absorb more.

Another temperature bug for planets (this'll be the third time I bring it up): Planets orbiting a barycentre are given a temperature of absolute zero, regardless of their distance from a star.

Post #3by **selden** » 05.01.2008, 14:25

Hungry,

Have you posted the bug to Celestia's Bug Tracker on SourceForge?

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1 ... unc=browse

Hungry4info · Post #4by **Hungry4info** » 05.01.2008, 21:04

selden wrote:Have you posted the bug to Celestia's Bug Tracker on SourceForge?

I have just done that.

Slartibartfast · Post #5by **Slartibartfast** » 05.01.2008, 21:36

Thank Hungry! That helped!