I always wanted to make an orrery in 3D. I have some cool ideas for a 3D piece for this map ... but I think I better stick with something I can accomplish in under 500 hours.
I always wanted to make an orrery in 3D. I have some cool ideas for a 3D piece for this map ... but I think I better stick with something I can accomplish in under 500 hours.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
I have ecliptic longitudes (and latitudes!) for all the planets incl. Sedna, Eris, Pluto and the top dozen or so asteroids incl. Ceres.
I was able to set Starry Night to view from "sun center" and set the date to 15605-09-15-1200.
The info is overkill ... Here's Earth ...I think all I really need is this part ...Code:Looking: south west (223 degrees from North) : 44 degrees from horizon Field of View: 100 degrees (width) : 92 degrees (height) Limiting Magnitude: 0.4 Observing Conditions: Clear Sky Clock Online... Universal Time: 9/15/15605 12:10:15 Local Time: 9/15/15605 12:10:15 Julian Day: 7420927.00712 Sidereal Time: 15h 57m 24.6s Delta T: 567158.2 seconds Location: Sun centre Latitude: 0° N Longitude: 0° E Heliocentric X: 0 meters Y: 0 meters Z: -0 meters Distance from Sun: 0 meters Angle from Ecliptic Plane: -55.749 arcminutes Phi: 86.580 degrees Name: Earth Object type: Planet Rises: 9/3/15605 at 01:14:13 Transit: 9/9/15605 at 20:51:30 Sets: 9/16/15605 at 16:22:16 Constellation name: Virgo Constellation common name: The Maiden Constellation possessive form: Virginis Azimuth: 263° 16.312' Altitude: 15° 24.993' Hour Angle (JNow): -8h 46m 57.6s Elongation: 105° East RA (JNow): 0h 44.373m Dec (JNow): 4° 36.109' RA (J2000): 11h 58.863m Dec (J2000): 0° 44.030' Ecliptic longitude: 11° 59.917' Ecliptic latitude: -0° 0.000' Galactic longitude: 275° 12.321' Galactic latitude: 60° 44.611' Distance from observer: 1.0077 au Distance from Sun: 1.0077 au Radius: 6378 km Apparent magnitude: -3.82 Orbit size: 1.0000 au Angular size: 17 arcseconds Disk illumination: 100% Planet oblateness: 0.00 Mass: 5.97e+24 Kilograms Max magnitude from Earth: 0.00 Length of sidereal day: 23.9345 hours Length of solar day: 24.0000 hours Length of year: 365.24 days Description: Earth, our home planet is the only planet known to harbour life and from fossil evidence has done so for 3.5 billion years of its 4.5 billion year life span. The surface of Earth is constantly being remade by atmospheric and tectonic processes, so unlike the Moon and other solar system bodies, the Earth is not marked by craters. Over seventy percent of Earth‘s surface is covered by water. The atmosphere of Earth is 77% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. Until the Apollo program in the late 1960‘s, we had never seen a view of Earth from the outside. The Apollo pictures reveal what a fragile and wonderful world we live on, a spark of life in the barren emptiness of space. Heliocentric X: 0.98568 au Y: 0.20949 au Z: -14 kmOf course Earth's ecliptic latitude is 0. Earth orbit defines the ecliptic.Code:Ecliptic longitude: 11° 59.917' Ecliptic latitude: -0° 0.000'
But, this being a flat map, I dunno if I will even include altitude above or below the ecliptic plane. Maybe as extra info. Maybe not.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
It's time to start laying out my workspace. I can print up to 11x17, and trim down to 10.5x16.5 with a bleed. But I have to count how many circles to fit into that space ... and I found this awesome pic ...
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Also, I had an idea. The circles to not need to be centered in the space. I can offset the whole thing, and crop down to the necessary elements, like the pic below shows all it needs to show, but the sun ain't nowhere near center. I think this will give the piece a nice touch ... a jaunty angle ... but it costs me some of the "celestial spheres" flavor ... oh well ... trade-offs ... I hope the celestial sphere flavor will be more in the graphic style rather than orbits centered on the page. Offsetting and cropping will allow me to cram more content into the space I have, because I won't be wasting space on empty stretches of orbit.
Of course, to do this, I have to plot out the circles first, and get all the elements in place ... well, the outermost ones, anyway. Obviously the inner planets won't affect this cropping idea.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Yeh, I thought the heliosphere was a lot further out ... and the Oort cloud closer in. I just realized I bollocksed something in a previous chapter ... a guy out in the Oort Cloud received a message from Earth that would have taken many months to get there. Maybe I can come up with a clever explanation. We'll see.Whoa... that is slick, informative, and useful all at the same time. Very nice find!
Anyway, did you notice the logarithmic scale there?
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Hey Toff, I just noticed that "solomap - awesome pic you just found!"
A local copier salesman brought me that file and I printed it at 30 x 48 inches for him about two months ago. Strange to see it again, here!
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Cripes, I hope he had a hi-res version.printed it at 30 x 48 inches
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Whoever invented the logarithmic scale was pretty clever, yeh. It wasn't that artist, though. Newton? Leibniz? somebody before them? I dunno. I oughta wikipedia it. I like math and its history. [ Edit: here it is. ]brilliant way to represent the vast distances
Like I said, I intended neither a true scale (practically impossible) nor a logarithm. I intended to abstract scale completely as concentric, evenly-spaced rings. But I do hope to put a logartihmic legend on it somehow.
Last edited by töff; 07-08-2008 at 01:28 PM.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?