Re: An interesting digital orrery

2011-04-27 Thread Frans W. Maes
Hi all, It was fun to reconstruct the state of the solar system on May 8, 1774. Why that date? On that day the moon, Mercurius, Venus, Mars and Jupiter would come together in the sign of Aries. This led to panic, as the cosmos was by many expected to collapse. An amateur astronomer, Eise

An interesting digital orrery

2011-04-23 Thread Frederick Jaggi
A company called Dynamic Designs produced this very interesting orrery based on NASA data as a demonstration piece: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/work/orrery/ Frederick Jaggi Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas ---