New cylindrical maps of Saturnian moons

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New cylindrical maps of Saturnian moons

Post #1by granthutchison » 27.12.2005, 14:06

Apologies if this link has already been posted.
Just dropped by to make sure you texture-builder folks know about the new Saturnian Cartography page at CICLOPS.

Grant

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Re: New cylindrical maps of Saturnian moons

Post #2by t00fri » 27.12.2005, 16:12

granthutchison wrote:Apologies if this link has already been posted.
Just dropped by to make sure you texture-builder folks know about the new Saturnian Cartography page at CICLOPS.

Grant


Many thanks, Grant,

these maps look like really well done (unlike earlier attempts). I guess, I'll get going during the holidays and prepare them for Celestia. Would be a nice addition to 1.4.1 (that we have to release anyhow soon).

Bye Fridger

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Post #3by Boux » 27.12.2005, 17:16

granthutchison wrote:Apologies if this link has already been posted.
Just dropped by to make sure you texture-builder folks know about the new Saturnian Cartography page at CICLOPS.
Grant

Thanks for the link. Some great pictures there :D
Gave me the idea to make new Saturn rings from the large ring shot.
Here it is:
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Re: New cylindrical maps of Saturnian moons

Post #4by granthutchison » 27.12.2005, 17:22

t00fri wrote:[I guess, I'll get going during the holidays and prepare them for Celestia. Would be a nice addition to 1.4.1 (that we have to release anyhow soon).
I also have the promise of shape data for Phoebe from Peter Thomas at Cornell, but he hasn't got back in touch recently: busy guy, I imagine.

Grant

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Post #5by t00fri » 27.12.2005, 17:23

Boux,

looks nice but I can anticipate what Grant is goint to reply. ;-).

The Saturn rings are tricky (Grant and I spent some time on
that challenge a while ago). Besides photographic imaging
you need separate information about the hires
transparency profile
and that /independently/ of the
ring's reflective profile (that you /mainly/ get from
photographic imaging).

Bye Fridger
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Post #6by ElChristou » 27.12.2005, 18:32

Tx Grant.

t00fri wrote:...I guess, I'll get going during the holidays and prepare them for Celestia. Would be a nice addition to 1.4.1 (that we have to release anyhow soon).


:D :wink:
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Post #7by Jeam Tag » 27.12.2005, 19:49

granthutchison wrote:Just dropped by to make sure you texture-builder folks know about the new Saturnian Cartography page at CICLOPS. Grant
Thanks Grant, they are very impressives, and Thanks to Fridger to turn them on nice versions (Limit of Knowlegde or entire pseudo-maps) for the next Celestia. I didn't know Ciclops site: must I have to had it in the little 'Sites de r?©f?©rences pour les textures plan?©taires' (Planetary maps sites used for Celestia building) paragraph of the 'Contributeurs' (Contributors) page of my catalog? [BTW, you could tell me if i have missing (apologies for that) some other important addresses.... ] Jeam
Catalogue des ajouts /Catalog for the Add-Ons in French
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Post #8by scalbers » 07.01.2006, 16:36

Greetings,

Good to see the new maps from the CICLOPS website. I have also been making a few updates, most recently to my map of Rhea at this location:
http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#RHEA

I hope to make an update of Iapetus next week with an addition of one of the nighttime Saturn shine images. I also updated this within the past month or so with other recent flyby images.
http://stevealbers.net

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Post #9by t00fri » 07.01.2006, 17:33

scalbers wrote:Greetings,

Good to see the new maps from the CICLOPS website. I have also been making a few updates, most recently to my map of Rhea at this location:
http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#RHEA

I hope to make an update of Iapetus next week with an addition of one of the nighttime Saturn shine images. I also updated this within the past month or so with other recent flyby images.


I have the satshine in since the data are out essentially

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About the only Cyclops update I did not like very much was
Iapetus. There was a global shift in longitude relative to
the pre-Cassini data which I had taken as a reference. It is
of course easy to correct for. But the rest is not so
thrilling, I am affraid.

Bye Fridger


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