Comments | kniedzw: A-Frickin'-Mazing

kniedzw

A-Frickin'-Mazing

Jun 21, 2007 13:31

So I was browsing Slashdot at work, and I notice an article on the five most active software projects at SourceForge. I noodle through, taking a look, and notice StellariumWhoa. Like, major whoa ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

dyrecorn June 21 2007, 18:04:16 UTC

Hey, neat! Might be useful for my Dark Ages char.

Thanks!

kniedzw June 21 2007, 18:27:31 UTC

Yeah. I love that you can overlay the constellations and then move forward and backward by sidereal days. It's tres useful.

kniedzw June 21 2007, 18:38:40 UTC

Also, don't forget to account for the change from Julian to Gregorian and vice-versa.

...which reminds me. I should ask Mark if we're playing on these dates in 1348 in Julian or Gregorian reckoning. I presume Julian, since we'd believe them to be, effectively, "local" time and date.

drydem June 21 2007, 18:50:39 UTC

It's not surprising to me. Back in college we had astronomy software that you could do this with that gave all the relative positions and such, you could even change your point of reference within the solar system to see what the positions of the planets looked like on Neptune for instance. Can you tell what I did during astronomy lab periods?