{"id":5076,"date":"2010-10-28T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:55:38","slug":"solar-system-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/news\/blog101028\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar system browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Implemented a \"browser\" of a planetary system - a table of thumbnails of the system's planets and suns. Cells of the table are clickable: when you click on a cell, the object it describes is selected: you can go to it with G key and so on. I don't know how to make the browser convenient for moons. Show them in the same table near planets? I can make their thumbnails very small so that they do not take up much space. Or make some sort of drop-down menu (making the browser 2-dimensional)? But the gas giants can have 60-100 moons, most of which are asteroid-like. Ignore such small moons? Another problem is multiple star systems: there can be 2 or more suns in the system, which could have planets; some planets also may orbit the common barycenter of a star pair. Looks like the browser should be three-dimensional...<\/p>\n

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Example of how browser looks now for a binary star system. It has no planets around the common barycenter though.<\/p>\n

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Or Solar System. It shows 11 planets, 3 of which are dwarfs (Ceres, Pluto and Eris).<\/p>\n

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