Vintage craft flyby of class G star

[Soron Silin]

Spoiler: Click for picture

"The drama was even greater in Trenton, Florida. There, amateur astronomer Martin Wise was watching the same prominence when a jet airplane flew by "
-- https://www.facebook.com/spaceweath...882029528848/2348799918703719/?type=3&theater

That is very similar to a shot you could set up in Elite Dangerous and shows how accurate their portrayal of stellar surfaces is. Of course we will need atmospheric planets before we can take similar pictures. I wonder if Elite will show the wake turbulence.

 

[AkenBosch]

At the cost of appearing pedantic, the Elite one is an accurate portrayal of stellar surfaces only when seen through a dedicated H-Alpha filter, filtering only on a specific emission line of hydrogen. To the naked eye, a star surface would appear a lot less mottled, mostly plain white/orange/blue except for sunspots (of which there's no trace in Elite's rendition) and you would have a hard time spotting any kind of prominences.

It's still a good and compelling visual representation at least.

 

[Bryan K]

At the cost of appearing pedantic, the Elite one is an accurate portrayal of stellar surfaces only when seen through a dedicated H-Alpha filter, filtering only on a specific emission line of hydrogen. To the naked eye, a star surface would appear a lot less mottled, mostly plain white/orange/blue except for sunspots (of which there's no trace in Elite's rendition) and you would have a hard time spotting any kind of prominences.

It's still a good and compelling visual representation at least.

Actually if you use a Herschell wedge, you still get the surface texture.

 

[Schmack]

I'd just use a Henway to simulate the bilateral translucence of the polarized field. No need to make it too difficult.

 

[AkenBosch]

Actually if you use a Herschell wedge, you still get the surface texture.

Well, yes, even with a simple Mylar or Astrosolar, still not remotely comparable to the H-Alpha appearance of faculae and convective cells.

(A Herschel wedge is a toy I'd like very much to have)

 

[Bryan K]

Well, yes, even with a simple Mylar or Astrosolar, still not remotely comparable to the H-Alpha appearance of faculae and convective cells.

(A Herschel wedge is a toy I'd like very much to have)

Same. I love my double-stacked PST very much, but I really want a Herschel wedge for my 6” Nexstar. Just got a foil filter for it, but haven’t tested it yet.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I call B.S.

B.S. here, how can I help you? What's that? You've seen the leaked video of the Panther Clipper running in Passenger Mode?

 

[Schmack]

...about 4.6 pounds.

Same as a Piecost then.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Same as a Piecost then.

Or half a knobfore.

 

[CMDR X]

Sounds like a Dikfer to me.

 

[Shiro Akai]

I'd just use a Henway to simulate the bilateral translucence of the polarized field.

Same as a Piecost then.

Or half a knobfore.

Sounds like a Dikfer to me.

Although I recognize all the letters above....