2d solar system schematics

[basilleaf]

Issue by basilleaf
Sunday Feb 22, 2015 at 21:12 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/basilleaf/spaceprobes/issues/18

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thinking another possible way to get probe location in solar system might be by using pointing angle of DSN dish (also in dsn raw feed as ra and dec i believe) combined with the distance-to-probe (w/ location on earth globe and TOD). In pyephem you can convert between coordinate systems http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/coordinates.html and astropy may be useful

ok how nerdy would it be to display it all in css with border radius to make circles + ellipses? http://cssdeck.com/labs/css-only-solar-system-model haha j/k not a masochist kinda want to

we don't need animation but might be nice to have some subtle behavior/interaction take place - or at least have the option, even if just on first load - rather than serving purely static image, so kinda thinking would like the image to be front-end generated.. Canvas? backend just supplies some numbers..

and ok i just love this little css animation <3 http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2013/03/03/animating-circular-paths-using-css3-transitions/

todo!

[basilleaf]

Comment by basilleaf
Friday May 22, 2015 at 03:20 GMT

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[basilleaf]

Comment by basilleaf
Friday May 22, 2015 at 03:21 GMT

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/187462403212020223/

[basilleaf]

Comment by basilleaf
Saturday Jun 06, 2015 at 05:35 GMT

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https://twitter.com/NASAJuno/status/606909024299188224?t=1&cn=cmVjb3NfbmV0d29ya19kaWdlc3RfdHJpZ2dlcmVk&sig=d586a76018669881114a902b0188b2e2fe4c60c7&al=1&refsrc=email&iid=dc3203a98b2944cbbbcd6fa6397d9bf3&autoactions=1433565192&uid=195460470&nid=244+592