Hypercosmic Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Note from my own lazy research: Barnard's Star is a BY Draconis variable star, which means its brightness mainly varies due to sunspots. We've also found that it emits intense flares too: From Wikipedia: In 1998, astronomers observed an intense stellar flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a flare star. (http://www.astronomy.com/news/2005/11/a-flare-for-barnards-star) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi K. Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 26 minutes ago, Hypercosmic said: Note from my own lazy research: Barnard's Star is a BY Draconis variable star, which means its brightness mainly varies due to sunspots. We've also found that it emits intense flares too: From Wikipedia: In 1998, astronomers observed an intense stellar flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a flare star. (http://www.astronomy.com/news/2005/11/a-flare-for-barnards-star) Cool. I'm going to make Barnard's Star b have a weak magnetosphere, so that its atmosphere will be pretty thin. I worked too hard on that texture to cover it up with atmospheric haze! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi K. Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 I started reading some more about the color of atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets, and I realized that the color of some of the atmospheres in REX are less than realistic. For example, Tau Ceti e's atmospheric color is too blue, and should be more pale and more yellow. Here is how Tau Ceti e looks like before and after the color change: I personally like the muted colors more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi K. Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 I'm thinking about creating a new mod that is like RSS Expanded but a million times better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi K. Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 Some more views of Barnard's Star b: Coming to a real (and soon stock) solar system very far from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iso-Polaris Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I can't really see the light of α centauri even with DOE installed, I should have. Is there a work around for this visual issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi K. Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Working on a new Tau Ceti h texture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 This thread has been locked at the request of the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 @AndrewDraws has asked that the following link to the new Exoplanets thread be added to the older thread. Please direct all comments regarding the Exoplanets mod to the new thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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