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5 Nov 2024 03:15:43 EST (-0500)
  Re: PoVSolar: Saturn  
From: Rarius
Date: 10 Nov 2009 06:06:41
Message: <4af94941$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
> 
> Once more I found some time to carry on with my PoVSolar project - a 
> (later on also animatable) model of the Solar System as scientifically 
> accurate as possible. After finishing a provisional version of the 
> Jovian system, I continue with Saturn (no moons yet, but this I hope 
> will change in the near future).
> 

> transparency bitmaps of the rings.
> 
> See you in Khyberspace!
> 
> Yadgar

Your Saturn looks too spherical to me. Just remember that the gas giant 
planets are noticably non-spherical. Saturn, for example, has an 
equatorial radius of 60,268km but a polar radius of only 54,364km. Thats 
10%!!!!

Rarius


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