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Use a more realistic texture of the Sun
Current texture of the Sun looks cartoonish and doesn't reflect the real look of the Sun. It not only has wrong colors, but also wrong granule sizes and sunspot sizes, locations, and contrast. The new texture is made from the SDO HMI observations, which automatically fixes these issues. The texture is a result of stitching the maps obtained from multiple HMI images, with the equatorial region containing the sunspots taken from observations from 2025-08-07 to 2025-08-31, while the rest is filled with spotless data of 2019-12-15. All the source images were considered valid only in the central 60% of the solar disk, because outside that region the faculae become more prominent, which is undesired for such a generic texture expected to be viewed from different angles.
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CREDITS.md

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4.3a Jupiter map created by James Hastings-Trew from Cassini data. "The
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maps are free to download and use as source material or resource
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in artwork or rendering (CGI or real time)."
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4.3b The Sun and Iapetus maps and rings of Uranus
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4.3b The Iapetus maps and rings of Uranus
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are from Celestia (http://shatters.net/celestia/)
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under the GNU General Purpose License, version 2 or any later
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http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/ see license in section 10.2
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4.3n Bennu map is created by NASA from OSIRIS-REx spacecraft data. Public domain.
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Full size mosaic: https://www.asteroidmission.org/bennu_global_mosaic/
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4.3o Sun map was created by Ruslan Kabatsayev from the images taken by SDO HMI.
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The map is under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later
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version.
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4.4 The fullsky milky way panorama is created by Axel Mellinger,
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University of Potsdam, Germany. Further information and more
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pictures available from

data/ssystem_major.ini

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tex_map=sun.webp
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rot_pole_ra=286.13
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textures/CMakeLists.txt

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INSTALL(DIRECTORY ./ DESTINATION ${SDATALOC}/textures
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FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.png"
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PATTERN "*.jpg"
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PATTERN "*.webp"
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PATTERN "CMakeFiles" EXCLUDE )
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