Incredible! I’ll be sure to check it out.

Peace!

Thanks,
Dave

As far as showing the orbits, that’s a feature I’m hoping to have “real soon now”. I’ll let you know once I get it added o the module.

Fantastic!

P.S. It’s fun to see that Mercury has moved a couple of pixels since I first started developing this module. On the flip side, it’ll be about 80 years before Neptune moves from the lower right to the upper left of the display.

That’s awesome!

I’ve been sort of looking for a new scope. What I really want is a Meade LX90 10" or an LX200 but I’ll likely settle for an LX90 8" ACF or a LightSwitch 8". You know how expensive it can get.

I’m going to play with your module some more. Thanks again. Good stuff!

broberg, you’re exactly right. You can adjust the color, drawing radius, and scale of each planet via config settings. I’ve updated the documentation in the README file to give some examples.

On a geeky astronomy aside, what was really eye opening to me as I was developing this module was to set jupiterScale to 1.0 and see how the inner planets clump around the Sun. Then to set neptuneScale to 1.0 and see how Jupiter clumps in with the inner planets. Neptune is way, way out there.

As far as showing the orbits, that’s a feature I’m hoping to have “real soon now”. I’ll let you know once I get it added o the module.

Thanks,
Dave

P.S. It’s fun to see that Mercury has moved a couple of pixels since I first started developing this module. On the flip side, it’ll be about 80 years before Neptune moves from the lower right to the upper left of the display. :-)

we are men, we don’t rtfm unless we have to

That’s effing hilarious. (Don’t know if I am allowed to curse here)

https://github.com/hoyski/MM-orrery#config

Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I should RTFM before I start asking for things

According to the modules config options you can change each planets color with :
planetColor (So mercuryColor for changing color on mercury)

and you can change the size of the planets with

planetRadius (samething here, if you want to change the neptunes size you change it to neptuneRadius)

https://github.com/hoyski/MM-orrery#config

This is my first module, and first foray into JavaScript for that matter, so any and all comments or suggestions on the module itself or the code behind it would be appreciated.

I’m just and end user so I’m only stating what I would like to see in this module. I’m an amateur astronomer (in the loosest sense), with amateur Celestron and Meade telescopes, but I make great use of them, weather permitting. I have Planetrise on my mirror because of my enthusiasm for sky watching. I saw your module and immediately added it to my array.

I’d like to see better coloring for the planets, or an option to colorize each.
I’d like to see the orbits of the planets, or the option to see the orbits. If you are familiar with “Stellarium” then you know what I mean.
I’d like to see a more realistic scaling, even if that means the sun will occupy a great amount of real estate, or an option for scaling the sun and/or the planets.

Thank you for your module