Luckily, I've discovered two open source applications that bring the stars to me: Stellarium and Celestia. I have long been fascinated with the night sky, but I live an hour's ride from the nearest planetarium. There was a time when visiting a planetarium involved more than turning on your computer. Or just use available on steam and works with any steam VR headset. The best ones I know of are Google Earth in VR. Pro-tip: go into options and select the human scale to make the buildings seem less like you're walking around a model village and more like you're a flying super hero flying through the real world. A real nostalgia trip for visiting places. Reccomendations for a high-fidelity low violence VR gameįree. To streamline the process, I showed short clips of each game and had kids choose which game they wanted to play, then did back-to-back in the same game. Also Home from the BBC and The Lab Vesper's Peak and Google Earth VR and Richie's Plank Experience. Since it shows you in a huge room it was cool. Looks like it will appear between E and ESE around 05.20.įor the actual program we mostly used The Lab introduction where you can inflate balloons and laser them. I just checked the sky using Stellarium with the location as Texas City, and there the moon is still below the horizon in the East. You can also use apps like Stellarium.įirst, verify with Stellarium (excellent shit btw):ĮLI5 what causes the moon to seem invisible sometimes? Sky and Telescope keeps lists of what's up. It will simulate the night sky and can be helpful in planning your observing sessions. It will simulate the night sky and allow you to see where to point the telescope to observe specific objects.Ĥ) Planetarium software such as Stellarium is available for PC, Mac, Linux, and mobile. 5) Once you have a list of things you want to observe, you may find a planetarium program like Stellarium quite useful.

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