Pluto System Cartography, places and names |
Pluto System Cartography, places and names |
Apr 26 2016, 10:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
repost from a different forum
--- this is a VERY enhanced and cleaned up map with the missing data filed in with the data from "Marc Buie , et al" map i created years ago based on "PIA19956" and "PIA19858" 2k lores ( 0 to 360 !!! ) 16k zip https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ZYAd08tZ...iew?usp=sharing |
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Feb 23 2017, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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Sep 7 2017, 04:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
Finally, Pluto features got their first official names by the IAU.
No big surprises, but it's good to be official. https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1704/ Regards, Marc. |
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Jan 3 2018, 08:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
Pluto in Google Maps is quite nice: http://google.com/maps/space/pluto
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Apr 11 2018, 06:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Charon IAU Nomenclature
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20180411 Interestingly modern fictional characters have made a toehold. |
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Jun 20 2020, 12:56 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
I made this map of Charon by combining the 12K USGS map with a map that was made from the Lowell Observatory back in 2000. I then overlaid color from the color IAU map and extrapolated color from one of the mid latitude grey areas into the southern hemisphere. I avoided using the color for the Mordor Regio (no official name yet for the giant north polar macula) or any other particularly dark area since the Lowell map shows the southern hemisphere to be brighter. It is interesting how well the albedo areas on the Lowell map roughly line up with the NH map.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4998312...bd2b8db9a_o.png This will likely be the highest coverage map of Charon until either something else flys by or a more powerful Earth based telescope images it. -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Jul 5 2020, 01:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
16K Map of Pluto made by combining USGS map with additional areas from a map from NASA and using maps from Hubble to fill in most of the rest then a map from Lowell observatory to fill in that tiny south pole area. Color from the NASA map was overlain with extrapolation from mid latitudes for the southern hemisphere.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/50079014212/ (2K preview) -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Nov 23 2020, 11:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
I recently got a new computer. With it, I have constructed the highest resolution color map of Pluto. I had to divide it into 4 sections because Flickr wouldn't accept the 24K beast as one or even two pieces. The map can be seen in this album.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/...157717015414428 https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/...157717015414428 -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Nov 24 2020, 01:01 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Spectacular. Great work!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 3 2020, 12:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I recently got a new computer. With it, I have constructed the highest resolution color map of Pluto. I had to divide it into 4 sections because Flickr wouldn't accept the 24K beast as one or even two pieces. The map can be seen in this album. Nice map Antdoghalo! Flickr allows images up to 200MB but size in pixels should not be limited so as long it's JPEG with such compression that it's smaller than 200MB, it should be fine. My largest image on Flickr has size 24 000 × 20 300. -------------------- |
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Feb 4 2022, 07:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
I don't know if I'm posting this in the right topic...
Reading Alan Stern's December 17, 2021 post "The PI's Perspective: Looking Back, Looking Forward" on the New Horizons website - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Per...tive_12_17_2021 - I noticed this excerpt: „For this update, I also want to mention to you that a number of Pluto system and Arrokoth surfaces features have received official names that our project team proposed (...) They also include the first surface feature named on Pluto’s moon Nix, and an official name, “Sky,” for Arrokoth’s largest crater.” However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere. Can anyone help me please? |
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Feb 4 2022, 08:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere. Can anyone help me please? Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Feb 8 2022, 06:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021. Thank you. In fact, there is probably some delay (e.g. there are also no maps/pictures with names on the surfaces of Bennu and Ryugu on the IAU website). |
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Feb 15 2022, 12:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
And here it is!!!
Thank you! http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20220210 (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Southwest Research Institute) |
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