[ExI] Starfield visualizations

[Alfio Puglisi]

Have you tried Celestia?  http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Runs on windows, mac and linux.
You can get some pretty amazing displays. Setting the location to Triton,
date 1/1/3000 and centering the view in the direction of Earth only takes
one minute, although it does not seem to recalculate planets' apparent
magnitudes...

Alfio

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:44 AM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com>wrote:

> What desktop software or web site can you recommend for starfield
> visualization? I want to choose a date, a location either within the
> solar system or elsewhere, see the night sky as it would appear,
> be able to check the magnitude of objects, etc.
>
> For example, looking towards the Sun on 1 Jan 3000 from Triton,
> how bright would the Earth appear and where would it seem to be
> located?
>
>
> -- David.
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