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Xplanet

Oxo pointed out a nifty program called xplanet to me. It displays a part of the solar system accurate to the current time. It includes correct shading depending on the placing of the sun, and the ability to add color maps.

This is a screen shot of my current desktop with the earth focused in the middle of Africa. Looks like today is approaching rapidly and it will be cloudy.


It requires a bit of setting up. I have a cron job using this script to download a new cloud map every three hours. I also updated my day, night and moon maps from the Visible Earth site. I highly reccomend it.

Monday, October 18. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2005-02-25 11:26
 

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#1 Barry Irwin wrote (Link) (Reply)
Posted on Monday, October 18. 2004
erm your RSS feed is including the mofo huge images for both this and your vc spoof :< seems the style infor is getting lots in translation. Maybe create xpanet-small ? Make better please
 
#2 Nathan wrote (Link) (Reply)
Posted on Sunday, November 13. 2005
you can also have headlines from teh world graphed onto the map if you run Martin Doege's Rss-Planet.http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/rss-planet/ really great program.
 

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