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[CA Curtis 17]

I know there are a lot of excellent astro-imagers on this forum who display their images on sites like astrobin or their own web sites.  A friend of mine who doesn't post much and who I think is an excellent astro-imager has come up with a novel way to display his images.  Dave has the traditional image gallery ( which also has a zoom lens tool) like everyone else.  He also has a large image of the Milky Way which is not that unusual.  What I think is different about his Milky Way image is the fact that he has imbedded links to individual images he has taken of objects located within our Milky Way.  This gives a nice perspective of the many deep sky objects commonly imaged.  I think the most unique feature of his web site is his 3D Universe.  This feature allows one to start at Earth to get a view of our solar system, then move out to a view of our galaxy and finally all the way out to the universe.  At each level you can rotate in 3 dimensions to view each (solar system, our galaxy, the universe) from any 3D perspective where he has objects he has imaged labeled.  And, of course he has embedded links to his images at each level.  I encourage folks to take a look.  Dave would appreciate feedback as well so he can improve the experience.  

 

 

You can find Dave's 3D Universe here:   http://www.upinthesky.net

 

Please note, the site is no optimized for mobile applications at this point.

Edited by CA Curtis 17, 21 June 2025 - 10:45 AM.

[BQ Octantis]

The Milky Way Tour and the 3D Universe pages are blank for me:

 

 

 

BQ

[CA Curtis 17]

What browser are you using?  The 3D Universe takes a moment to load - also check if you are zoomed too far out.  You may need to click on one of the Blue tabs for the Milky Way.

Edited by CA Curtis 17, 21 June 2025 - 09:39 AM.

[CA Curtis 17]

Sorry about any confusion I.  I inadvertently used Dave's beta test site.  I have since corrected the web address in my original post.  Here it is again this http://www.upinthesky.net  

 

Regards,

Curtis

[BQ Octantis]

Firefox and Chrome in various flavors of MacOS on various Mac platforms.

 

There is a graphics card dependency. If the graphics card is incompatible, it presents the blank screen as shown; pulling up the console shows the multitude of errors:

 

 

It only works on two of my four machines, one old and one new.

 

Ironically, it works great in Chrome on my Android phone.

 

BQ

[CA Curtis 17]

Firefox and Chrome in various flavors of MacOS on various Mac platforms.

 

There is a graphics card dependency. If the graphics card is incompatible, it presents the blank screen as shown; pulling up the console shows the multitude of errors:

 

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It only works on two of my four machines, one old and one new.

 

Ironically, it works great in Chrome on my Android phone.

 

BQ

BQ

 

Is this with the updated link?

 

Curtis

[BQ Octantis]

BQ

 

Is this with the updated link?

 

Curtis

Yes.

[pfile]

strange, it works fine for me on Firefox on MacOS 14, just as long as i have scripts enabled for that site.

 

rob

[Quadstronomer]

this is really cool! Thanks for sharing

[rj144]

Pretty cool.

 

If you have a computer and a bit of money, check out SpaceEngine.  It's a 3D simulation of the entire universe.

 

Some screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

[BQ Octantis]

Pretty cool.

 

If you have a computer and a bit of money, check out SpaceEngine.  It's a 3D simulation of the entire universe.

 

Some screenshots:

It says it's "photorealistic".