Kerbol System to scale

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Like "Red" said in The Shawshank Redemption, in prison a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied... I'd add a free but very bored man, too.

So here it is, probably the most obnoxious wallpaper you can have, I'm already hating it with all those labels and sphere that look like icons!

(click for full size version)

Edited May 24, 2015 by Rosco P. Coltrane

[Rithsom]

I think it looks quite nice. Really gives a sense of how big Jool and Kerbol are (and how small Gilly is ).

[WinkAllKerb'']

+101%

[Pax Kerbana]

Nice! Like it!

I didn't realize Dres was so small, Tylo so big, and Eve isn't as big as I thought it was.

Now Jool... I love Jool. Nothing like a station in low orbit just barely skimming the atmosphere.

[Windspren]

I think it looks quite nice. Really gives a sense of how big Jool and Kerbol are (and how small Gilly is ).

Well, where is Gilly???

[BurningLegion]

Well, where is Gilly???

Where it belongs. Next to its motherplanet, Eve <3 You need to zoom in the picture to see it at all.

[WinkAllKerb'']

is it all about f*** @ n*** xDr

Edited May 25, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''

[luizopiloto]

Nice

[Tex]

A really cool image! I always loved seeing comparisons between celestial bodies. As it happens, does anyone know where there's an image comparing Kerbol to other stars? I know Kerbol is impossibly small, I want to see by how much.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Well, I thought Kerbol looked like a flea compared to the real sun... but not so much:

Still small though, but then again our sun is not precisely big... https://cdn.pmylund.com/blog/content/2010/07/sun_is_a_pixel.jpg

PS. Thanks for the rep!

Edited May 25, 2015 by Rosco P. Coltrane

[Tex]

Excellent, excellent! I was reading on the Wiki that apparently Kerbol is too small to really be a star, something to do with its features. Interesting to see the comparison.

[WinkAllKerb'']

in the same spirit why has kerbin to be like earth in all points ... i really think it's interesting that kerbin has diffrent caracteristic than earth in term of environnement trans-position/location inherent "space travel/ing" related adaptation from the root planet ...

Edited May 25, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''
sentence probably ugly spelled but that the idea behind ...

[sj176]

According to the KSP wiki, Jool has roughly the same equatorial radius as Earth and Venus.

[luizopiloto]

So, in other words, Kerbol is in another universe... Where particles are more dense than our's.

This explains why Kerbin's atmosphere sometimes reacts like a Non-Newtonian fluid...

Edited May 25, 2015 by luizopiloto

[Francois424]

Well, I thought Kerbol looked like a flea compared to the real sun... but not so much:

http://i.imgur.com/3EpSIao.png

Still small though, but then again our sun is not precisely big... https://cdn.pmylund.com/blog/content/2010/07/sun_is_a_pixel.jpg

PS. Thanks for the rep!

About the size of a larger type of M-class star. Man what wouldn't I give for "real" solar system editor in KSP

I could make stuff like a fictional Gliese 581 system (a What If or the likes).

[DarkGravity]

Very mentally stimulating post! Well done! It sort of reminds me of the old "not ready for prime-time" SNL commercial for SHIMMER, the product that is both a floor wax and a desert topping, because what you have posted here, my friend, is not only a fine bit of educational information, but those would also make some damn fine bowling ball designs. You have truly given us much to consider.

Edited May 26, 2015 by DarkGravity

[Shadows2b]

Is it me or Jool is way too big in comparison of Kerbol?

Would it be hard for the dev to buff a bit kerbol?

[Curveball Anders]

So, in other words, Kerbol is in another universe... Where particles are more dense than our's.

Ah, and that might explain why the lovely Kerbals sometimes also appear a bit dense.

[cicatrix]

Jool is too big, I think, according to wiki its equatorial radius is 6000 km while Kerbin's radius is 600 km (ten times less).

If you look at the picture it's very clear that Jool is way bigger than Kerbin, more than 10 times anyway.

[DarkGravity]

Radius is one dimension, volume is three dimensions. If Jool has ten times the radius, it will have a thousand times the volume. Looks about right to my eye.

[cicatrix]

Radius is one dimension, volume is three dimensions. If Jool has ten times the radius, it will have a thousand times the volume. Looks about right to my eye.

We see circles. Circles have radii. Jool's radius should be exactly ten times larger than Kerbin's.

Actually I played with a spreadsheet (best with Excel, not with Google Sheets):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KuXyfouSxg0MpStoCVrJ6_PR5pPy_JbBWPJHqlTk9_o/edit?usp=sharing

Here's what I got:

Edited May 26, 2015 by cicatrix

[Jodo42]

Looks about right to me.

[cicatrix]

A funny fact is that Jool is about the size of Earth and Kerbol is about the size of Jupiter. I wonder if this is a mere coincidence or not.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

In my picture, Jool is 1500 pixels in radius for its 6,000 km (what's seen there is less than half Jool because it was just too big, the equator is outside the picture). Kerbin is 150 pixels for its 600 km radius.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Rosco P. Coltrane