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Hi, all....
In this video featuring Pluto features when it gets to The Hillary Montes section... in the upper right hand corner something comes up, at first it looked like the glow of a geyser or something, but turns into an object that looks like a Magellanic Cloud...can someone confirm this is so?? Here is the URL to the video on YouTube...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbiygSo478

Thanks.
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Who knows? It's just some kind of synthesized background that is some approximation to the Milky Way.

I would imagine that the cloud at the beginning of the Hillary Montes area flyover is a synthesized SMC and the later cloud would be the LMC since the view is displayed as traversing toward the south pole of Pluto though Pluto's south pole doesn't face the solar south orientation

There is no way Pluto could ever come near the Magellanic Clouds in the sky as the ecliptic doesn't cross that part of the sky.

starsurfer wrote:There is no way Pluto could ever come near the Magellanic Clouds in the sky as the ecliptic doesn't cross that part of the sky.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Could you clarify that a bit, and explain its relevance to a flyover simulation?

For what it's worth, an observer on Charon would witness Pluto occulting the SMC, about every six (Earth) days.

But I haven't yet gone so far as to determine whether the star field background in the simulated flyovers of Pluto, are possible, or possible at a particular date and time. But they certainly look like the SMC and LMC.

Chris Peterson wrote:

starsurfer wrote:There is no way Pluto could ever come near the Magellanic Clouds in the sky as the ecliptic doesn't cross that part of the sky.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Could you clarify that a bit, and explain its relevance to a flyover simulation?

Oh I missed that bit!