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An Orrery for Rainmeter
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- Rainmeter Sage
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Re: An Orrery for Rainmeter
This is so cool... It's great to see a fun "toy" like Rainmeter turned into an actual educational tool that shows you how the solar system works. It's one thing to read about Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler in some dusty history book (assuming schools even teach this stuff anymore), another to see their ideas in action. And to think those guys figured out all this stuff using nothing more than hand-made telescopes and sextants... and they had to write out their Lua scripts with a quill pen!
More fun with orreries: Geocentric Tellurion by Mordasius, and Steampunk Orrery and Clock by yereverluvinuncleber.
More fun with orreries: Geocentric Tellurion by Mordasius, and Steampunk Orrery and Clock by yereverluvinuncleber.
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Re: An Orrery for Rainmeter
First post updated with latest version of the skin.
Added location configuration via text file.
Added adjustment for Dynamical Time.
Added new StarMap mode.
Added location configuration via text file.
Added adjustment for Dynamical Time.
Added new StarMap mode.
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Re: An Orrery for Rainmeter
Wow, it looks nice (and probably accurate as well) - well done! Just saw this now, but if I had seen this earlier, maybe I would have avoided writing a somewhat similar (yet a bit different) solar system "simulator" a while ago. I didn't regret working on that, as you probably don't regret working on your skin, as it improved my knowledge on these astronomical things.
Again, excellent work - much better than mine!
Again, excellent work - much better than mine!

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Re: An Orrery for Rainmeter
Indeed - well, partially at least.

I was not stalking you or anything, just checked the "New Posts" forum option - something I rarely do, to be honest - and (this is where you played a part, yes) took advantage of your recent reply to add my appreciation to this too. Thanks for giving me the chance, by the way, but make no mistake, I personally still prefer my skin.


P.S. Slightly off topic, I recommend Celestia for astronomy lovers. It's a free and quite accurate piece of software.
Last edited by eclectic-tech on November 7th, 2023, 2:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Corrected Link to Celestiaproject.
Reason: Corrected Link to Celestiaproject.
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Re: An Orrery for Rainmeter
First post updated with latest versions.
The original Orrery skin has been split into three separate skins: Orrey, SkyView, and StarMap.
The new skins support scaling.
Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Rainmeter is strongly recommended.
Please see readme.txt for configuration and operation details.
The original Orrery skin has been split into three separate skins: Orrey, SkyView, and StarMap.
The new skins support scaling.
Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Rainmeter is strongly recommended.
Please see readme.txt for configuration and operation details.