Bill Gray Nov 21, 2015
On 11/21/2015 03:48 PM, tom loeblt@... [guide-user] wrote:
> Bill,
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> my moon display (Luna) is smooth gray with no detail. What am I doing wrong?
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> Tom
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> On 11/21/2015 3:34 PM, Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user] wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
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>>> ...However, the Moon map is low resolution
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>>> A simple fix for this?
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>> For that, you should be able to right-click on the Moon, then
>> on Display, then Options. You'll see some radio buttons for selecting
>> which image is to be used. You probably want the 'Clementine image'.
>> (Same trick works with getting different images for the planets,
>> keeping in mind that not all planets have more than one image. Or
>> even just one image.)
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>> At some point, I do want to take some maps made by Steve Albers
>> for Pluto and Charon, and process them into Guide's format :
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>> http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#PLUTO
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>> as well as a few other maps he's either done or provides. The major
>> issue with Pluto will be the "retrograde" issue... which has been
>> muddied still further by the is-it-a-planet-or-isn't-it nonsense.
>> When Pluto was a planet, the official position was that it was
>> retrograde. As a dwarf planet, it's prograde, and the lat/lon
>> system has been modified accordingly.
>>
>> -- Bill
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