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Pluto Texture Map 16k

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Recently a color map of Pluto was published: www.planetary.org/multimedia/s…
It's of smaller resolution than my previous Pluto map, but covering more of the surface. I took the details from this map: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cata… and mixed it in, filling the gaps with Hubble data. Pluto's albedo varies from 10-99%, I tried to reflect this in this texture. I also tried to get the colors to look as natural as possible. 0° Longitude is in the center, as required for use in Celestia.

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Update July 2017

New map materials for Pluto was published, so I reprocessed this map. This time I believe this is as close to real colors as possible. This version is gamma corrected (gamma value 2.2) and aligned for use in Celestia. This map is not that visually stunning though, so I made another version for that purpose, without gamma correction: fargetanik.deviantart.com/art/…

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Update Feb 2019

I decided to start from scratch again. I used this map as a base. I adjusted the brightness to fit an albedo range of ~0.14 in the dark cuthulu region and ~0.89 in the bright sputnik planum. The relative colors were extracted from the color map mentioned above, processed to reflect more natural colors. With the help of a visible color spectrum I determined the overall hue of Pluto and colored this map accordingly. After boosting the gamma value to 2.2 I got this map of Pluto in natural colors.
Image size
16384x8192px 74.35 MB
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Casiopeia546

Great work! but why is the lower part blurry?