Horizons Glowing Blue Planetary Rings

Devari

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There is an interesting graphical "glitch" that happens occasionally in Elite where the graphics turn into what looks like an old 16-color VGA monitor. Usually when this happens I just open the system map and the graphics reset to their normal colors. This happened to me today when I was in my Asp, and I opened the system map to "reset" the graphics. Everything looked normal again, but then I noticed the following planet which was actually glowing:

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The planet was literally glowing blue. I flew in for a closer look and it was clear that the planet's rings were glowing:

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You can clearly see the shadow along the rings where the system's main star is illuminating the planet with "normal" light so the glowing blue effect was a separate light source entirely:
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The glow was coming from the rings and not the planet itself as it disappears when the rings are viewed edge-on:

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The glow was quite intense and bathed the ship in blue light as I got closer:

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When I quit to the main menu and re-entered the game, the graphics reset to their proper colors and the glow was gone:

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So it just turned out to be a graphics "glitch" but the effect was really striking seeing "glowing" planetary rings.
 

Devari

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Caramel Clown said:
You can actually see very bright planetary rings. They have to be perpendicular to a system plane, so they reflect all the sunlight :)
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Interestingly in my case the graphical glitch both changed the color of the rings and caused them to glow blue despite not having much sunlight reflecting off of them. So I'm not sure how the graphics glitch I encountered managed to both change the color and also turned the rings into their own light source.
 

Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
Devari said:
Interestingly in my case the graphical glitch both changed the color of the rings and caused them to glow blue despite not having much sunlight reflecting off of them. So I'm not sure how the graphics glitch I encountered managed to both change the color and also turned the rings into their own light source.
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Looked pretty cool from the distance though. It would definitely freak me out.
 

Andurol

Andurol
I found a ringed planet which was completely black. So black that when I went to fly around it, I didn't even realize I was headed straight for the outer ring until I got dumped from sc. Scared the heck out of me that I just stopped there for a second trying to figure out what went wrong. Have to find the video of it, and I'll put in a link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipGhI0UJ2dk
 
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