Saturn

I offered critique of Drell-7's way more accomplished Saturn from Dione Revised, which reminded me that I'd once tried to make my own Saturn. Fortunately for Earth's orbital stability I was unable to get it out of the garage.

This was inspired by my first view of Saturn through a telescope, which was a complete happy accident. "I wonder what that bright thing is?" I wondered to myself. I pointed my newly acquired telescope at it; "bloody hell, it's only Saturn..!" That was a definite moment of awesome.

Saturn was modelled in Anim8or, UV mapped with UVMapper Pro and Microsoft Excel () and rendered in Vue Something... Can't remember, but I'm going to say Vue 4. I didn't get as far as including the moons, and the background starfield is a work of fiction. The maps came from planetpixelemporium.com, with thanks to James Hastings-Trew.