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Charon shine on pluto's farside, is there any charon shine on pluto?
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post May 15 2021, 01:04 PM
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i wandered about charonshine on pluto and
i watched this animation of the flyby and according to it there should be
a good chunk of charonshine on the farside lighting up mapped parts and unmapped parts of the southern hemisphere
in this image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...cklit_Pluto.jpg


here is a pic from the animation showing potential charonshine on pluto
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can anyone like ted pull real charonshine from any of the pluto images, because theoretically there was a huge hunk of it visible during the flyby and i want to add it to known map coverage

here is a whole gallery of raw pluto images for anyone to attempt charonshine extraction
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...Date&page=9
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post May 15 2021, 02:13 PM
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There was lots of discussion of Charonshine in the post-encounter threads - check out these for example:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8074
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8071
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8103
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post May 16 2021, 12:52 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ May 15 2021, 03:13 PM) *

yes there is charonshine on pluto conversations in there but i don't see what i am looking for (a good image of charonshine on pluto i can reproject into a map

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i did find a really nice charon night being lit by plutoshine image and i reprojected it into a map and merged it with the charon map on the usgs astropedia
the usgs map i used can be found here https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Ch...ic_300m_Jul2017
you can easily find lots of images of charon's night being lit by plutoshine by simply searching "charon's night"

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