Hi(gh)!

Am 22.12.2014 um 02:35 schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> A little bit closer to home than galaxies, and a transparent
> excuse for playing with six recently released moon maps :)
>
> See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4403

They are much better now... but the saturation is somewhat enhanced, or, 
to be more precise, also non-visible light intensities have been taken 
into account for calculation.

Inspired by these new maps, I started to re-activate my POVSolar project 
(as some of you might remember, back in 2009 I worked my way from the 
Sun and the inner planets halfway into the Saturn system) and thus now 
continued with Mimas, the smallest spherical moon of Saturn.

To get a more realistic view, I reduced the overall saturation (-50 in 
GIMP) and upped brightness (+80 in GIMP) and contrast (+25 in GIMP) to 
match Mimas' high albedo, which is about 0.93.

I also did a fly-around animation of Mimas, showing Saturn and its ring 
system in the background - soon to be published on YouTube.

There also now detailed shape models (ASCII tables) of the six 
medium-sized icy moons of Saturn exist - in the futured, I want to 
replace the simple spheres with spherical mesh2s generated from them!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Firth Of Fifth (Genesis)

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