Starship Asterisk*

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

Extra credit question: Name the APOD in the desktop background (my background shown in the link above, not yours). (Answer)

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http://phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/#neptune
http://phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/#pluto

makc wrote:Can you Check out another kick-ass online solar system model.

I have better uses for my fingers, thank you very much!

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

Under uranus?

we need spoiler tag here.

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.

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?

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.

bystander wrote:... show ... showed

apodman wrote:

bystander wrote:... show ... showed

show

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.

there's no point to this model without scrolling

in space no one can hear you scroll