Vista System - Blog Posts
Triangulum Log - Post 6 - Vista System (A Parting Recap)
Last shots of the system’s 5 largest worlds before continuing my adventures in Triangulum. I am now off to find another star system to explore.
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Image 1 - Inner Dwarf Planet
Image 2 - Planet 1 - Hot Ice Giant
Image 3 - Planet 2 - Rocky World
Image 4 - Planet 3 - Large Gas Giant
Image 5 - Planet 4 - Super Earth with satellite.
Triangulum Log - Post 5 - The Vista System (Planet 4)
The Vista System’s 4th and outermost planet. This dry cold desert world orbits 1.45 AU from the sun. It is the system’s only super-earth type planet with a mass of 4.37 times that of Earth, and a diameter of 11,656 kilometers (1.82 Earth’s). It is surrounded by a dark-gray ring system, likely a shattered satellite that got too close. The atmosphere is thin and dry, composed primarily of carbon dioxide and smaller quantities of ammonia and methane. The surface is cold with a global average temperature of -94° F
A single large satellite orbits close to the planet. The moon has a radius of 1,091 kilometers and a mass one-quarter that of Earth’s moon.
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Image 1 - Planet 4
Image 2 - Dusty world
Image 3 - The wastelands
Image 4 - Endless Sand
Image 5 - A glimpse of home. The Milky Way, and Magellanic Cloud Galaxies.
Image 6 - Faint rings
Image 7 - The Lone companion
Image 8 - Dead world
Image 9 - Conjunction
Image 10 - Pre-eclipse
Triangulum Log - Post 5 - Vista System (Planet 3)
Our journey of the Vista System now takes us to the third and largest planet in the system. This gas giant has 1.14 times the mass of Jupiter and a mean radius of 73,934 kilometers. It is much warmer than Jupiter at -41° F versus Jupiter’s -163° F, and as a result has extremely active weather patterns and a stormy atmosphere. Cloud decks are composed primarily of water-ice crystals.
The planet orbits 0.88 astronomical units from the sun, has an extensive ring system composed of silicate-rich materials, and a single large satellite. The planet’s satellite has a radius of 1,360.71 kilometers and a mass roughly 70% that of our moon. It has an average density of 4.82 g/cm³, indicating a large metal-rich core region.
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Image 1 - A Giant and her rings.
Image 2 - Beautiful faint ring system.
Image 3 - Stormy Skies
Image 4 - Ring Shepard.
Image 5 - Andromeda Photobombs the rings. (High Exposure Shot)
Image 6 -Battered moon.
Image 7 - David and Goliath
Image 8 - High and Seek
Image 9 - Parting Ways
Triangulum Log - Post 4 - Vista System (Planet 2)
Here we come across the system’s second planet, a warm desert world. This rocky world orbits 0.41 AU from the sun and has a mass roughly one fifth that of Earth. It is a hot world covered in a thin Carbon Dioxide/ Sulfur Dioxide atmosphere with one tenth the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The planet is tidally locked to the sun and has an average surface temperature of 231° F on the day-side.
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Triangulum Log - Post 4 - The Vista System (First Planet)
Top image shows the Andromeda Galaxy rising above the inner-most dwarf planet. From here, the great spiral galaxy covers over 11 degrees of the sky or almost 22 times larger than a full moon on Earth.
Other three images show the inner-most planet, a large ice giant 50 times the mass of Earth orbiting 0.30 AU from the sun.
In the last shot, each of the small stars in the background are actually large bright asteroids in the systems asteroid belt.
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Triangulum Log - Post 3 - The Vista System
We’ve moved away from the last system and traveled nearly 13,000 light years to another system on the edge of Triangulum.
Here we come across a system which I have called the Vista system, due to some of the stunning views of gas giants and their moons.
This system is configured rather unusually, in that the asteroid belt forms the inner-most part of the system, orbiting close to the star with a single dwarf planet orbiting within. Above are pics of the inner-most dwarf planet.
This moon-sized world orbits 0.13 AU from the sun, with a scorching surface temperature of 760°.
More pics of worlds in this system to come.
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