Comments on: How We See the Stars in 3D https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/04/how-we-see-the-stars-in-3d/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Drew https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/04/how-we-see-the-stars-in-3d/#comment-3962 Wed, 11 May 2016 18:08:43 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5033#comment-3962 This is amazing! I just hope that one day, we can all see these up close and personal. For now, this is good enough.

]]> By: tony https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/04/how-we-see-the-stars-in-3d/#comment-2835 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:35:44 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5033#comment-2835 If you want to get a sense of what the stars look like in 3d, I wrote a web app for that. It’s got about 15k stars from Hipparcos. But rather than a 2-AU baseline like Hipparcos and Gaia, the default is set to 1 light year.
To view in 3d, select “Stereo”, You can change the baseline if you like. You can also swap the images by choosing “crosseye” or “parallel”. With crosseye, you cross your eyes until the 2 images merge. With parallel, you gaze with an infinite stare, like those books of patterns where a 3d dolphin pops out if you do it right. You can also print it and view it in Brian May’s “Owl” 3d viewer.

Another way of getting a 3d feel is to take a journey “through” your favorite constellation. Set the ship speed to a non-zero number and press “Play”.

It’ll be fun to improve this with Gaia data one day!

http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/properMotionSimulator.html

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