Can you find Uranus?

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Can you find Uranus?

Post by makc » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:38 pm

Can you ;) Check out another kick-ass online solar system model.

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by neufer » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:47 pm

makc wrote:Can you ;) Check out another kick-ass online solar system model.
I have better uses for my fingers, thank you very much!
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Re: Can you find Uranus?

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by makc » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:09 pm

apodman wrote:Note the relative position of the cursor in the horizontal scroll bar.
Under uranus?

we need spoiler tag here.

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by bystander » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:33 pm

To make it more interesting, they ought to place the planets above or below the center line according to their displacement from the ecleptic. Of course that might be problematic for Pluto, since it is on a highly inclined orbit. But who cares, it's not a planet anyway, so says the IAU.

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Post by Chris Peterson » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:50 am

bystander wrote:To make it more interesting, they ought to place the planets above or below the center line according to their displacement from the ecleptic.
Every planet crosses the ecliptic twice in its orbit. So do you mean the page should be dynamic, showing the current distance from the ecliptic, or that it should be static and show the maximum displacement?
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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by bystander » Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:36 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:Every planet crosses the ecliptic twice in its orbit. So do you mean the page should be dynamic, showing the current distance from the ecliptic, or that it should be static and show the maximum displacement?
I was thinking maximum displacement, if you were going to show current, you would probably want to show current orbital distance, not average. Basically I was wanting something that showed the relative inclinations of the orbits.

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by apodman » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:00 pm

bystander wrote:... show ... showed
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Post by bystander » Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:30 pm

apodman wrote:
bystander wrote:... show ... showed
:D
:?: :? :?: show

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by apodman » Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:21 pm

Well call me a silly literalist. When something is shown to me, my spoiled self expects it to be visible without all the fun searching and scrolling.

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by makc » Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:24 pm

there's no point to this model without scrolling

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Re: Can you find Uranus?

Post by apodman » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:44 pm

in space no one can hear you scroll

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