Based on our record, Space Engine seems to be a lot more popular than Sky Map. While we know about 122 links to Space Engine, we've tracked only 5 mentions of Sky Map. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I mean, there are plenty of good deep sky images out there. Try looking at the New General Catalogue (NGC) objects for something that strikes your fancy. Alternatively, you could cruise around in Space Engine and bookmark an interesting galaxy to get screenshots from multiple angles, which is what I usually do. (SE is available on Steam for a reasonable price.). Source: 10 months ago
Computer says yes: https://gravitysimulator.org/ https://spaceengine.org/ Once the mass, velocity, heading of an object is known it becomes easier to track and fine tune parameters meaning time of intersect with earth can be calculated which gives orientation of planet and entry attitude. An exact street addres | sub metre grid reference is a big ask, but the "line of breakup" arcing across a narrow slice of the... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Space Engine[1] is another popular one [1] https://spaceengine.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
This is a bit of a tall order. There are none that I know of; most folks I know who do galaxy maps either make them by hand with their digital paint tools of choice, or utilize the procedurally-generated ones from Space Engine. Up until recently SE had a free (old) version available on the site; you should still be able to find a mirror of it somewhere but I don't know of one personally. Otherwise, SE is available... Source: 12 months ago
Numbers as overwhelming as these are meaningless to our little minds. Then, do yourself a favor. Download Space Engine and see for yourself what it's like to visually behold the mindblowing immensity we are talking about. Now, take into account Multiverses, and consider the possibility that all those Universes may be fractal-like with n-infinite dimensions. Contemplate that we probably know absolutely nothing... Source: about 1 year ago
> All the UIs we have for sky-watching now have moved away from that Check out [SkyMap](https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid)! - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Even better, it's open source now! Https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid. Source: about 1 year ago
Well, also there's security and maintenance issues from too many projects like that... Like just keeping shit the same with every new browser... I do think when they do close something, they should still let it calve off into open source land... Such as skymap which is cool: Https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid. Source: over 1 year ago
FYI, That 2012 article links to the old code.google.com repo that redirects to the post's link https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid. Source: over 1 year ago
Try Sky Map app. It's fun to go on a walk when the sky is clear and identify constellations and planets. It was originally made by Google, then open sourced in 2012. https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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