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I remember Starry Night having the option to see the night sky from different planets. You know, in case you wanted to track the stars with a telescope, on Mars
by Medox 6y ago
I remember Starry Night having the option to see the night sky from different planets. You know, in case you wanted to track the stars with a telescope, on Mars.
- headcanon 6y agoI can't say enough good things about Starry Night in terms of teaching me about Astronomy and the Universe early on. Being able to "go" to other star systems and see what the night sky looks like was essential for intuiting our "place" in the sky in a lot of ways, much like playing Kerbal solidified my intuition around basic orbital mechanics.
- SloopJon 6y agoI pulled this up in Stellarium, and the only real difference is that you can see Phobos, Deimos, and Earth. It doesn't seem to simulate the atmosphere. I also tried this in Gaia Sky, but I would need to tweak the settings. The faint stars are too bright, and the bright stars aren't bright enough. Any other recommendations for exploring our neighborhood virtually?
- jmholla 6y agoHave you tried out Space Engine [0]? It's a lot larger than our local neighborhood, but it uses real data. > Real celestial objects are also present if you want to visit them, including the planets and moons of our Solar system, thousands of nearby stars with newly discovered exoplanets, and thousands of galaxies that are currently known. [0]: http://spaceengine.org/ http://spaceengine.org/