Asbjørn Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I'm starting up a new Trinity campaign, and have been looking around for a few handy tools and visual aids to add to the experience. It's going to involve quite a bit of in-system space travel, and what I really wish I had is a program that gives the location of every planet and moon in the solar system at any given date, and lets you add your own objects so it's possible to include various space stations, orbital cities and such.Do any of you have any idea where I could find such a thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I had been looking around a bit.Just entered "Solar system simulator" in Google. There are some sites.Try this one:http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/SolarBut there are many more. Take a look around ,pal. ::wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asbjørn Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 Oh, trust me, I've been looking. There are hundreds that do what that one does, but like I said: I want more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I haven't come across anything like that either, but I would also be interested in having it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat82 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 There are one where you could surf around in the solar system (with realy good graphics as well), however you could not add objects (that easily).Its on sourceforge if your looking for it, cannot remember its name though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expendable Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 There are one where you could surf around in the solar system (with realy good graphics as well), however you could not add objects (that easily).Its on sourceforge if your looking for it, cannot remember its name though.Try Celestia. They've got things like babylon 5 and deep space 9 ships and stations and various planets as separate downloads so you can throw them into your simulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asbjørn Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 Thanks! Looks like something I can use, at least with a little work... ::thumbup1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueNinja Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 I found http://www.solstation.com/ while looking for something to give me an idea of where local (within 50LY of earth) stars are, and the site looks like a good reference for Trinity folks. One thing I noticed almost right away is that it shows a habitability zone for Alpha Centauri - useful when in the Trinity era, we're supposed to have a colony there! (Of course, given that the stars orbit 23.7 AU's apart, that colony is probably bound to one or the other of the suns in a closer orbit.[edit] And I just noticed that they actually have a map of which stars are within 47 or so light years of Sol! Anybody know what the stars listed in Extrasolar Colonies book got named as? [/edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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