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i want a thing that shows me in a nice, accurate diagram where the planets of teh solar system are, and orients it so the due south point is pointing towards the center of the galaxy

i don't think this exists, but i think i can find a data source that provides the relative angles of all the planets compared to the earth (mostly, these can be precalculated but they aren't exactly exactly exact) so probably i can just use an ephemeris data source, and make a thing that puts the planet symbol on a circle where it is and orients it all so i can see it as a pattern

this would be a super cool thing to have on an e-paper device, that just updates once a day to show the state of the solar system

why i'm interested in this is because it has just occurred to me that for us here, the galactic center is like the sun's sun, and what is facing where compared to that would be useful information, as for the most part those lines of radiation direction from it are parallel so you can just draw it in a box, and see where we are, it's like a seasonal clock, but even more than this

i am pretty sure that if you got used to looking at such a chart you'd start to notice patterns coinciding with events

like, specifically, i think that between february and july is when the most crazy stuff happens, and why? because that's when we are on the side of the sun that is like teh sun's "day side"

sure, the sun is a massive radiation emitter, itself, but it is influenced by what radiation comes at it, and the majority of it comes in ... october? i think

we are now moving away from the "midday" aspect of the sun versus the galactic center, so things will calm down from now

this pattern slowly shifts every 25000 years for a solar "day" and right now october is solar midday

Daniel Wigton 1y ago

I too want this! Should be a standard app on any phone. Would probably be pretty easy to develop.

Have different scales for distance from the sun

Proportional

Unit step

Logarithmic

Calculating transfer orbits would be a nice addon..

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

hah! i love this shit, if only i could just throw a week or two at building a piece of code that does what you say

ahh priorities

right now, making a Go based GUI that does Nostr ephemeral chat is my number one priority, and after that, doing enough hours on my paid gig they aren't unhappy with my progress

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

also, what would be even awesomer would be to have a second ring that shows a proportional gravitational effect, calibrated so the sun's ring marks out the same as pluto's orbit, roughly, and then apply the same distance versus mass to generate the rings for each planet, and draw these as a 10% opacity ring around all of the planets so you can actually see the interaction of the gravity effects

for extra bonus points, there is magnetic fields around each planet and the shape of it is altered by their rotational tilt and in fact each planet has a primary-secondary magnetic field axis, they call them "geomagnetic anomaly" and ours here on earth marks out a weak second pole that cuts through about between japan and phillipines and across to somewhere in the carribean

having both the gravitational overlay and the magnetic overlay would be extremely indicative of the chances of things to happen i think

gravity is definitely important, but so is magnetic field, but only our planet and everything larger has one - but the smaller planets, mars, venus, mercury, have field induction, they are just smaller

Daniel Wigton 1y ago

The gravitational Hill-Sphere is fun. But it isn't centered on the planet. I know that isn't exactly what you are talking about but the Hill sphere indicates where a particular is the dominant gravitational force.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

oh yeah, that would be like the summation of the fields of multiple objects, it would be pretty