Re: Good, easy-to-use star view program?

Ben Crowell wrote:

Catja Pafort wrote:
And double extra bonus if someone writes an application that uses random
seeds to create a sky for other planets. I would really love to be able
to accurately describe skies, but I'm not astronomer enough to do it
with any degree of accuracy.

There's various software that can simulate a view of the sky from any
given location in space. I think openuniverse and celestia may be able
to. I guess the disadvantage, compared to constructing it using a
pseudo-random number generator based on a seed, is that you wouldn't
be able to redo it multiple times in search of a particularly striking
or attractive set of constellations.

I'd want to be able to view it from different latitudes and in different
seasons. A little planetary simulator. I don't care whether it's the
real universe or not - but I'd need the ability to save and go back to
it.

Oooh, is that a bald cat I am spotting?


Catja



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