Hello, I am the creator and maintainer of Stellarium Mobile. I have been working in my free time for about a year on this new project Galaxium, that is more about traveling in the universe rather than looking at the sky from Earth. It is still experimental, and at the moment I am not sure what it will become. Feedback is welcome.
guillaumec
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I thought it was limited to the solar system until I accidentally kept zooming out, and got my mind blown a couple of times. And again when I saw the black hole.
This is ridiculously well made
bitterblotter
Amazing work! I've been actually working on a solar system / gravity sim for my son who has been getting a lot of enjoyment out of the PhET gravity/orbit sims, that has some overlap with your project. It's up at https://newtonsorchard.app
I haven't put nearly as much time into my project as you've put into yours - Galaxium is really polished and impressive. Well done!
andrewchilds
I also get the "Galaxium can't run in this browser" message in firefox, which is up to date.
But I'm on linux, maybe that's the problem?
c64d81744074dfa
Very awesome. FYI Voyager(1,2) should be oriented with the big antenna dish pointed towards Earth.
O5vYtytb
9.336 WGPU Error: Not enough memory left.
This is on a 4GB 1650 Super, latest Firefox, Win10. It's an old card, sure, but it can still play most commercial games; I'm not sure why this thing is so hungry. Lots of big volumetric textures, maybe?
mrec
This is beautiful. My first thought was that kids would love it — it
makes space feel real in a way textbook diagrams never managed.
workscove
It's cool! Recently I built a space explorer-like WebGPU project inspired by Space Engine the game, and your implementation runs smooth with rich visuals, that's far superior to mine.
I do find it sometimes hard to navigate and has some visual glitches, but man it is good. I hope one day it becomes my go-to for space exploring, since Space Engine is Windows only and it does not run on my Mac. And building the space must be a huge amount of work, there's so much that has to go into it.
Lwrless
Is it down? Every attempt to click the link in both Firefox and Chrome is forbidden by both browsers: "SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length."
jrdres
Super cool project! These kinds of viewers seem to pop up every few days, but this one is the best one so far.
For feedback, I found it a bit odd that when selecting Sombrero Galaxy for example it zooms to the black hole M104 at the center of it, and actually viewing the entire galaxy then requires several mouse wheel spins :)
Otherwise, great stuff.
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guillaumec
I thought it was limited to the solar system until I accidentally kept zooming out, and got my mind blown a couple of times. And again when I saw the black hole.
This is ridiculously well made
bitterblotter
I haven't put nearly as much time into my project as you've put into yours - Galaxium is really polished and impressive. Well done!
andrewchilds
But I'm on linux, maybe that's the problem?
c64d81744074dfa
O5vYtytb
This is on a 4GB 1650 Super, latest Firefox, Win10. It's an old card, sure, but it can still play most commercial games; I'm not sure why this thing is so hungry. Lots of big volumetric textures, maybe?
mrec
workscove
I do find it sometimes hard to navigate and has some visual glitches, but man it is good. I hope one day it becomes my go-to for space exploring, since Space Engine is Windows only and it does not run on my Mac. And building the space must be a huge amount of work, there's so much that has to go into it.
Lwrless
jrdres
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