color schemes...is this an artifact of the charge field ?
Re: Distances in Astronomy?
Postby 601L1n9FR09 » Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:46 pm
About the only thing I see lacking from the work of Katirai is the prospect that the bodies seen so far away from the primaries have too little sunlight to reflect. In EU/PC they can be emitting light in plasma glow mode.
Well, so do I. It seems that most of what we see of the gas giants is reflected sunlight. That's not excluding the possibility that some small portion might be a plasma glow, but by in large it is reflected sunlight. This can be shown by the fact that they exhibit a slight gibbous phase, as seen from Earth when the Sun, and the outer planet are appropriately positioned. The limb darkening on one side, seems to me, to prove that they are shining by reflected sunlight.nick c wrote:hi promethean,The mainstream still thinks the light of the gas giants is reflected from the sun...
I have read that the planets radiate more energy than they receive from the sun...
so how much "some small portion" of plasma glow ?
and how big is the sun in the sky of Saturn anyway ?
Thanks for your thoughts...(should this thread be elsewhere ?)