Oculus System - Blog Posts
Oculus System - Post 4 (Beautiful Outer Giant)
Here we come across the outer-most planet, a large gas-giant with a violet tint. This giant world has more than 5 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits the sun at an average distance of 7.15 AU. The planet has a beautiful ring system, and is surrounded by a system of 10 spherical satellites.
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - Outer-most gas giant - Light Enhanced
Picture 2 - Closeup
Picture 3 - Rising Giant
Picture 4 - Another moon shoot
Picture 5 - Rings over the sly
Picture 6 - Ring Closeup
Oculus System - Post 3 (Cratered Wasteland)
The system’s third planet is a nearly airless Mars-sized world, heavily cratered world. The planet orbits 1.19 AU from the sun, has a mass of just 8.6% that of Earth and roughly half of Earth’s diameter. A tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere clings to the surface with a surface press of just 1/100,000th that of Earth. Surface temperatures can reach the boiling point of water during the day, and fall nearly -300 °F at night.
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - Mercury-like planet
Picture 2 - Two small satellites
Picture 3 - A view from a moon
Picture 4 - Setting Sun.
Picture 5 - Broken Crater
Picture 6 - From just 10 km above the surface.
Picture 7 - The Surface
Oculus System - Post 1 (Introduction)
We are now inside the giant NGC 604 Nebula. I’ve come across this wide binary system consisting of a F4 giant that is almost 16 times brighter than Earth’s sun and a smaller, but still bright G0V type star more than twice the brightness of Sol. The first worlds I am exploring are the ones orbiting the smaller or secondary of the two stars.
Descriptions of the planet’s to follow in the next post.
Space Engine System ID: RS 1229-171-5-23517-58
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - Inner-most Planet
Picture 2 - Surface
Picture 3 - Warm Ice-Giant
Picture 4 - System's fourth planet from a satellite
Picture 5 - Double occultation of two moons
Picture 6 - World with Ethane Oceans
Picture 7 - Setting distant 2nd sun