Saturday, October 24, 2015

There's a new version of Stellarium = 0.14.0

So, let's try it out, looking at Mars............


This morning, Phobos is out in front of the planet, and Deimos is around behind, so let's visit those, shall we? First, we'll go to Phobos, for a close view....



And then, we will have a look at the dark side, from its other moon, Deimos....



And we've just done something "The Martian" didn't. Cool, huh? So where's Mars? Barely visible, near the center of the screen, with just a little of its outline on the edge nearest the sun, because, after all, we are almost directly behind it looking at its dark side.


And this about as close as I can get without it being too big for the frame. There isn't much detail here, because most of the interesting stuff in on the other side of it just now.

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