Can anyone find any planets in this photo?
Jupiter is there. Press on the (i) icon and it shows constellations. Jupiter's orbit is shown in green.
Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever
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#42Re: Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever
#43I wish there was an easy way to save the current view as a PNG. I could set it to full screen and use Print Screen, but the app icon and interface buttons would need to be edited out.
Indeed, it would make a nice wallpaper.
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#44Re: Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever
#45Can anyone find any planets in this photo?
Jupiter is there. Press on the (i) icon and it shows constellations. Jupiter's orbit is shown in green.
The green line is actually the ecliptic, the path which the Sun travels on the celestial sphere. You may find all the other planets along it also, because it is coplanar with Earth's orbit around the sun and, as consequence, almost coplanar with the other planet's orbits.
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#46Just found you can zoom with the mousewheel. Zomming in on what appears an interesting feature reveals more and more details. This is just awesome. I can't help but feel more insignificant than usual when exploring this sky map.
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#47Why it is bright only in middle and dark else where?
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#48Just found you can zoom with the mousewheel. Zomming in on what appears an interesting feature reveals more and more details. This is just awesome. I can't help but feel more insignificant than usual when exploring this sky map.
It'd be even cooler if there were deeper zoom levels which linked in images specifically of a particular object. Say I find and zoom in on the Horse Head Nebula I get to images of that specific object.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know, I'm sick of websites that do things like this.
And I'm sick of iPhone users ...
So sorry. Some of us just think that if we have a standards compliant web browser we should be able to use it to view things regardless of what device it is running on.
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#50Why it is bright only in middle and dark else where?
Imagine you are look at a CD from the center, you would see matter in the middle but not above nor below. It is a little bit the same thing except the solar system and our Earth are not located in the center of the galaxy but somewhere close to the edge.