Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by martimoose 4577 days ago
I hesitated when posting the article. Maybe I should have posted the technical one. I wrote them all in one piece, but split them afterwards for different crowds. The one I posted is the least technical one of all, but it's the entry point. My bad. The best scenario to see eclipses is the Inner Solar System, and put the scale to 1. Eclipses are very difficult to simulate, as the distances are so huge, you need to have incredibly precise positions to observe one. But it is still possible to see them, for example at http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/?scenario=InnerSolarSystem&d...
1 comments

Having read the help text about the moon position I understand the problems. It's still so damn impressive though, I didn't mean to sound critical above :)