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While searching for data I could use for my Jupiter truecolor texture maps, I found a dataset for Uranus and Neptune also: archive.stsci.edu/missions/hls…
The Neptune maps weren't that interesting, but we don't have good maps of Uranus, so I decided to do one. I processed the color filters centered around 467, 547 and 658 nm to get close to real colors and matched color according to this site: www.donaldedavis.com/2002_addo…

The data was aquired by Hubble in November of 2014 (later maps would show even less of the southern hemisphere). I filled the gap in the northern hemisphere with a Voyager texture (also from real photography). So this map shows Voyager's view of the planet correctly also

Note that south is up (hemisphere imaged by Voyager 2). Celestia requires this orientation for retrograde rotators. Because of the low contrast I decided to leave the texture in 16 bit color depth to avoid artifacts, even though for most uses this depth isn't avaliable anyways.

I also processed 2 other version, for one I used the luminance of the IR filter map to increase the details and for the other one I used Snowfall's Keck map and a highly-processed Voyager image to increase the details in this map. Resolution isn't higher though. I might make an addon featuring all 3 textures...

Description
While searching for data I could use for my Jupiter truecolor texture maps, I found a dataset for Uranus and Neptune also: archive.stsci.edu/missions/hls…
The Neptune maps weren't that interesting, but we don't have good maps of Uranus, so I decided to do one. I processed the color filters centered around 467, 547 and 658 nm to get close to real colors and matched color according to this site: www.donaldedavis.com/2002_addo…

The data was aquired by Hubble in November of 2014 (later maps would show even less of the southern hemisphere). I filled the gap in the northern hemisphere with a Voyager texture (also from real photography). So this map shows Voyager's view of the planet correctly also

Note that south is up (hemisphere imaged by Voyager 2). Celestia requires this orientation for retrograde rotators. Because of the low contrast I decided to leave the texture in 16 bit color depth to avoid artifacts, even though for most uses this depth isn't avaliable anyways.

I also processed 2 other version, for one I used the luminance of the IR filter map to increase the details and for the other one I used Snowfall's Keck map and a highly-processed Voyager image to increase the details in this map. Resolution isn't higher though. I might make an addon featuring all 3 textures...