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Acknowledgments

 

My gratefulness to following people, institutions and companies for the material source that I have obtained from them, since has been great help for SISV realization :

People   Institutions
Bill Arnett
David Darling
Chris Laurel
Bjorn Jonsson
James Hastings
Franck Richard
Calvin J. Hamilton
José de la Herrán
plca NASA
ESA
JPL
National Geographic
Wikipedia
MEADE
ALCYONE
CONACYT
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Sources list

 

Texture maps and 3D models - My 3D models and maps - Information sources

 

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Photsphere and chromosphere Sun’s maps: Modified Celestia's Gstar map http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ (Chris Laurel)

Mercury and Mars maps, and Tycho catalogue map of 9,110 stars "Yale Bright Star Map" Caltech/JPL: http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/

Surface map of Venus: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Venus

Earth map: Satellite images, compiled by ESRI ArcWeb Services for The National Geographic Map Machine. http://mapmachine.nationalgeographic.com/

Moon map (John Van Vliet) and Earth clouds (Don Edwards): http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/

Fictitious Milky Way map: http://www.winstars.net/english/index.html (Franck Richard)

MIR base model: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/vr/vr.html

Map of Jupiter, Phobos and Deimos 3D models and bump maps: http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html (James Hastings)

Texture maps of Saturn’s rings: A, B, C & D. Phobos, Deimos, Amalthea and Hubble HST model basic: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

ISS base model and its set of textures maps from http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ (Orion Nebula)

Maps of Io, Europa, Ganymede, Calisto and Saturn: http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/ (Bjorn Jonsson)

Pictures and maps of Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus; Saturn and Titan pictures: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
and http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Cassini-Huygens base model: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ (Jack Higgins). Background picture of Saturn
in Cassini-Huygens model: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm

Base maps of Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ and http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/ Uranus, satellites and rings pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Neptune map by C. Thomas's “Planetary maps”, and proteus base map by Phil Stooke obtained from http://www.planetscapes.com/maps/neptune.html (Calvin J. Hamilton)

Ida 3D model by NASA, downloaded from http://www.planetscapes.com/maps/models.html

Eros 3D model by "Planetary Data System / Small Bodies Node", http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/NEARdb/nlr/#shape
and downloaded from http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/

Mathilde pictures and Eros map, pictures and data: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission. http://near.jhuapl.edu/

Ida and Gaspra pictures from Galileo spacecraft: JPL http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Ceres and Vesta pictures: NASA, ESA http://hubblesite.org/

Asteroids graphics: Trojans http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trojan.html (David Darling)
- Centaurus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_%28planetoid%29

Oort’s cloud graphics: Oort’s cloud scheme http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/OortCloud.html - Oort’s cloud and Kuiper belt scheme: NASA/JPL - KBO's comparative: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Giotto and Halley encounter graphic: ESA http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

All the pictures and graphics in General Information of Stars, have their own credit at picture foot.

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Sun maps: Corona map, based on a picture of SOHO, NASA - ESA. The ultraviolet cylindrical map was made with four sequential shots of SOHO’s EIT camera; and the plasma ejections maps were also made with 4 EIT pictures downloaded from http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/. The Photosphere and chromosphere glow maps, the radiation storm and ultraviolet model corona are fictitious maps, based on SOHO pictures too.

The MIR and Hubble 3D models I remade them totally, using as basis the models from http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/vr/vr.html and http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Practically all the maps of Hubble and Mir Models, except for a few details from ISS textures, they were also made by me using pictures of the spacecrafts (see Information Sources).

At the ISS 3D model from Celestia, I exchanged 80% of geometry with less polygons, corrected the structure and added some details based on NASA's model construction guide from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/scalemodel/index.html. And I made totally new the Soyuz spacecraft.

Background maps of Hubble, MIR and ISS, I made them with astronauts photographies, courtesy of "Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center" http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov.

The Amalthea 3D model was designed totally based in pictures.

The Titan map was made with 4 different spectral maps from JPL-NASA and the black & white maps of Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus also from JPL-NASA, they were retouched and colored.

At Celestia's Cassini-Huygens model (http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/), I reconstructed it with less polygons, adjusted the proportion and added many details. All the textures of this model are based in the spacecraft pictures.

The maps of Uranus, Venus clouds and asteroids are completely fictitious.

The Celestia maps of Miranda, Umbriel, Titania y Oberon, I retouched them and modified the color, based in the JPL's maps and Vogager 2 pictures from http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/ and http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/, and the Uranus rings map was made with a picture from this last site.

The Triton map was realized with Voyager 2 pictures. The face that looks to Neptune is realistic; the other one is a duplicate.

To the map of Proteus by Phil Stooke, I added dark rock texture based on Voyager 2 pictures, and I made the 3D model with the JPL-NASA data.

The Neptune rings map was made based in Voyager 2 pictures and data from JPL-NASA.

The Pluto map was made based in B&W map from ESA-Hubble, http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/, with textures from Seal / Rawlings fictitious map, JPL/Caltech http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/, and from James Hastings Pluto map free version, http://planetpixelemporium.com/pluto.html, adjusting the color with a NASA picture (Eliot Young (SwRI) et al.,) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010319.html.

Caronte fictitious map. It was made based only in color and albedo Seal map, http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/, using a texture mix from Thetys, Rhea and Iapetus maps, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/.

The Asteroids graphic 3D menus: Main belt, NEA's and Trojans, are just designs.

Ceres, Vesta, Mathilde, Ida and Dactyl maps are based in photographs by Hubble (HST), Galileo and NEAR-Shoemaker spacecrafts. Vesta, Dactyl and Mathilde 3D models also were made based in photographs.

Asteroids 3D models and maps from the artistic representation are all fictitious.

The Kuiper belt and KBO's graphic 3D menu is another design. The orbits are in scale between themselves, the objects don't.

Eris, EL61, FY9, Orcus, Quaoar and Sedna maps are fictitious, based only in albedo data and approximate general color.

Oort's cloud 3D model and maps are (pretty obvious) fictitious too.

The tail and coma 3D models of Comet Halley are fictitious. The nucleus 3d model is based in the photographs taken by ESA spacecraft Giotto. All maps are fictitious too.

The Celestial Sphere graphic 3d model is my design and the 89* graphic representations of constellations are snapshots of the same sphere, complemented with data and more stars in Flash presentations.

*89 because Serpens is presented in two parts.

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Sun info: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sun, and from the book: The Universe. A Biography, by John Gribbin. BBC-Folio (Spanish Version). Sun pictures: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Mercury info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury&Display=OverviewLong

Venus info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus&Display=OverviewLong
and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Venus

MIR info and pictures: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mir.html

ISS info and pictures: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Hubble info and pictures: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/index.html

Planets and satellites info: http://www.nineplanets.org/ (Bill Arnett)

Planets and satellites info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Planets, moons, MIR, ISS and Hubble info: http://www.daviddarling.info/

Saturn, its moons and rings, info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Cassini-Huygens, info and pictures: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm and http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

Uranus, its moons and rings, info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus%27_natural_satellites

Neptune, its moons and rings, info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Pluto and moons, info and pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ , http://www.daviddarling.info/ , http://www.nineplanets.org/
and http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Asteroids Info:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/asteroid.html
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trojan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids
http://www.nineplanets.org/asteroids.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_%28planetoid%29

Kuiper belt info: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs&Display=OverviewLong
and http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/KuiperBelt.html

KBO's info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.daviddarling.info/

Comets Info: http://www.nineplanets.org/comets.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Comets pictures: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Comets&Display=Gallery,
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other and http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

Oort's cloud info: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=OortCloud&Display=OverviewLong
and http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/OortCloud.html

Coordinates and orbital data of planets, satellites, KBO's, asteroids and comets.
Planetariums:
MEADE's Astronomical http://www.meade.com/support/index.html
Celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Orbital diagrams:
AlCYONE Planet's Orbits V 1.7.0 http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/
Near Earth Object Program, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

Solar System Simulator, to check points of view: http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

Stars and constellations info

General information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/star_types.html
http://www.dibonsmith.com/stars.htm

Pictures
NASA - ESA - Anglo-Australian Observatory - http://www.enc.hu/1enciklopedia/ - http://www.uranometrianova.pro.br/ - http://www.astrogea.org/ - www.daviddarling.info - http://www.astroimages.com/ - http://www.teleskopy.net/

Data
Planetariums:
MEADE’s Astronomical
Hallo Northern Sky V. 2.3.0 by Han Kleijn
C88 V 1.2 by ALCYONE
Stellarium 0.8.1
Cosmic Atlas (José de la Herrán) – CONACYT Mexico.

Catalogues:
Searched through ALCYONE’s site (http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/):
The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version)
SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
Combined General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Vol. I-III)
And directly:
The Washington Double Star Catalog http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/wds.html
The NGC/IC Project. Public access NGC/Ic Database http://www.ngcic.org/pubdb.htm

 

Utilities

Photoshop plugin: Spherical Mapping Corrector http://www.richardrosenman.com/

Recommended plug-ins for viewing 3d worlds: Blaxxun Contact. Parallel Graphics’ Cortona VRML Client and FreeWRL

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