See The Galaxy And Solar System Up Close On A Mac.
You’ve seen the Google Earth images on television news. The ability to zoom from space to the house next door is stunning.
It’s always fun to zoom down to your block to see if you can find someone you know. I found my parent’s car and our neighbor’s garage.
What if you go the other way? Out to the solar system, the stars, the galaxy. Use Celestia on your Mac and you have not only the world, but the universe, too. Mostly.
Celestia is a free (hey, it’s a review from.... (excerpted).
2 Reader Comments
Stanley Waters said:
Celestia is to outer space what Google Earth is to, ah, well, the earth. It just rocks. The movements are fluid and smooth and quick. It takes some horsepower to make Celestia work. My dual core CPUs are running at 70% just to keep it going. Some of the images of our solar system are just visually stunning. Awesome.
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bugsnw said:
Someone already said it Rocks. So I’ll add it’s a Gas!
Klunky isn’t the word. It can be difficult, almost video-gameish, to try to quickly approach a planet and slow down in time. It makes ok use of the keyboard.
Strange how Google earth has a klunky interface as well. There should be a book out there somewhere.
This fun app humbles you and you suddenly feel kinda small. Hard to believe that all that beauty and diversity is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium. All the rest is 1%.