Updated mass for Pluto-Charon #188
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From https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ....167..256B/abstract Mars's mass is changed by a minuscule amount; previously I assumed that the GM given is total system mass, but I couldn't find support to this claim.
i wrote a small Python program to generate the ring texture file instead of relying on the unreliable image editor programs. This should result in the outer ring (Q1R) *technically* becoming visible, although at opacity of 1/256 it is likely not very visible. If possible, we might want to implement the dense portion, where opacity reaches significant values.
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Apologies for an update to this pull request after approval; I figured I would like to update before I forget about it. The update is fixing the rings of Quaoar. |
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@JiliTheSpaceboy could you post comparison of Quaoar with old and new rings? |
I forgot to update it when I remake the texture...
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(The new commit changes the outer edge of the rings of Quaoar by 4 km, as I forgot to change it when updating the ring texture)
The rings appear to be imperceptible in the program itself because it's extremely tenuous. You can see the difference if you download the ring files and see what is encoded within each pixel. I'd hoped that viewing the rings from a more oblique angle would help bring them up, but no such luck. |
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Could you provide license information for the image? |
Do you mean quaoar-rings.png? That one is covered by textures/medres/quaoar-rings.png.license |
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What's the source of the new file? |
I made the quaoar-rings.png myself. It's based on https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...683C...4P/abstract . |
From https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ....167..256B/abstract Mars's mass is changed by a minuscule amount; previously I assumed that the GM given is total system mass, but I couldn't find support to this claim.