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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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data/ssystem_major.ini

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rot_equator_ascending_node=196.13
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rot_obliquity=7.25
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;rot_periode=654.61
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tex_map=sun.png
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tex_map=sun.webp
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type=star
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rot_pole_ra=286.13
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rot_pole_de=63.87

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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textures/sun.png

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textures/sun.webp

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