Snarfed from The Shed:
Here, if any Penguinistas want to waste a bit of time, have a look at xplanet. 's really rather shiny. It's turned the background piccy on my screen into a picture of The Whirled, upadted every few minutes, with day and night rotating around it as it does, and the piccies are real ones, and every few hours it grabs a new piccy of what the clouds are doing and overlays it ... you can lose hours playing with it. Coo.
And if you feel inclined, you can also overlay country boarders, locations (in Longitude & latitude) with tags.... Use an entirely different surface map to represent any planet, or even create your own.
I too have wasted a number of hours with xplanet !
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 1:54 pm, Anthony Anson wrote:
Here, if any Penguinistas want to waste a bit of time, have a look at xplanet. 's really rather shiny. It's turned the background piccy on my screen into a picture of The Whirled, upadted every few minutes, with day and night rotating around it as it does, and the piccies are real ones, and every few hours it grabs a new piccy of what the clouds are doing and overlays it ... you can lose hours playing with it. Coo.
The message 20031126175228.RAHK15446.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@there from Paul bdi-emc@ntlworld.com contains these words:
And if you feel inclined, you can also overlay country boarders, locations (in Longitude & latitude) with tags.... Use an entirely different surface map to represent any planet, or even create your own.
I too have wasted a number of hours with xplanet !
Further mumblings from the Shed:
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And you can have satellites and space stations and hubbletelescopes all spinning around it taaw. I want a satellite webcam !
Owjer do dat den? I must say it's dedd spiffy.
It is, isn't it ? You reads the Manuel, you does. Look for the "-satfile" option.
On my Debian it comes ready molished with a couple of supposedly-suitable whatnots in /usr/share/xplanet/satellites so that you can just go, say, "xplanet -satfile iss" and it does the International Space Station. Thobut, it jbexeth not, but yea it complaineth mightily on account of that /usr/share/xplanet/satellites/iss.tle is Wrong. But if you look inside that file, it gives you a URL to look for an uptodate version thereof, which you copy over the one they give you, and then it jbexeth.
Assuming you meant owdjerdoo satellites, etc, anyway. If you meant, satellite webcam, I haven't found that one yet. 'sprobably only a matter of time though. I'm dead impressed with the downloadable-every-few-hours cloud piccies, I must say.
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