Preview of the upcoming release 1.5.0 of Gaia Sky, the free and open source 3D Universe software available for Linux, Windows and OS X.
This video was rendered with Gaia Sky. Home page: https://goo.gl/9UfRkF
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZA9nW7UZ8
Simulation of the solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 using Gaia Sky.
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06LYOoUZQx8
A short trip through the Gaia Sky DR3 very large catalog, which contains 466 million stars. It starts with a rotation at a distance of about 500 pc from the Sun and a subsequent fall inward in the direction of the Sun, to finish close to the Earth.
Gaia Sky home page:
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
Music track: "In Her Name" by Marco Castelli (www.marcocastelli.com).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8ghMBKwxI
Overview of Gaia's Lissajous orbit around L2 in relation to the Earth and the Sun.
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3iAV_GJubc
Fast preview of the new 'rather large' catalog in Gaia Sky. It contains all stars up to 50% parallax relative error, or some 400 million of them.
This video was rendered with Gaia Sky.
Home page: https://goo.gl/9UfRkF
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiG5m0a2RTw
Simulation of the planets in the Solar System scaled up by a factor of 3000. Time is sped up by a factor of 2*10^6.
The format is 4K@60fps.
This video was rendered with Gaia Sky. Home page: https://goo.gl/9UfRkF
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rLO5ItqILI
This video illustrates the concept of parallax.
More information here: http://www.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gaia/parallaxvideos/README.md
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3uBWfBGfM
Demonstration of how to load data into Gaia Sky using Topcat and SAMP
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc0q-VbeoPE
This tutorial covers basic scripting with Python using the Gaia Sky API.
Gaia Sky home page:
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de
With the support of DLR and BMWi
http://www.dlr.de/
http://www.bmwi.de/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo5oz-3nIQ8