On 9/19/2018 7:47 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 19.09.2018 um 13:22 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Another question: The bitmap is long in the horizontal direction, but I
>> don't know which end is supposed to be closer to the axis and which is
>> supposed to be toward the outside of the ring. Any ideas?
> 
> Left side of the image is the planet side.
> 
> Another question to be figured out is, what are the proper distances
> from Saturn's center to the inner and outer border of the image?
> 
> My guesstimation - judging from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn - is that the image is
> supposed to represent the range from the start of the D ring (left side,
> 66,900 km from Saturn's center) to the F ring (right side, ~140,220 km).
> 
> Alternatively, the image may be supposed to start at the planet's
> equatorial surface, 60,268 km from the center.
> 

I emailed the owner of that site but haven't gotten a response yet.


Mike

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