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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

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Reference · Facts, line drawings and positions

PORTRAIT_PRESETSconstant

Ready-made scenes to start from: a family photo of the Sun and the planets, the gas giants to scale, Jupiter and the Galileans, the Earth and the Moon to scale (size and distance), Mars and its moons at their true distance, and the inner planets round the Sun.

Import it

import { PORTRAIT_PRESETS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets";

Definition

const PORTRAIT_PRESETS: readonly Preset[] = [
    { id: "family", name: { en: "Family photo", ja: "家族写真" }, scene: fromList(["sun", ...PLANET_IDS], { arrange: "arc", scale: "readable", moons: "manual", orbits: false }) },
    { id: "giants", name: { en: "Gas giants", ja: "巨大ガス惑星" }, scene: fromList(["jupiter", "saturn", "uranus", "neptune"], { arrange: "row", scale: "true", moons: "manual", bg: "gradient" }) },
    { id: "galileans", name: { en: "Jupiter and the Galileans", ja: "木星とガリレオ衛星" }, scene: fromList(["jupiter", "io", "europa", "ganymede", "callisto"], { arrange: "row", scale: "readable", moons: "auto", orbits: true }) },
    { id: "earthmoon", name: { en: "Earth and Moon to scale", ja: "地球と月 (大きさと距離の比)" }, scene: fromList(["earth", "moon"], { arrange: "orbit", scale: "true", moons: "auto", orbits: true }) },
    { id: "marsmoons", name: { en: "Mars and its moons at true distance", ja: "火星と衛星 (本当の距離)" }, scene: fromList(["mars", "phobos", "deimos"], { arrange: "orbit", scale: "readable", moons: "auto", orbits: true }) },
    { id: "orrery", name: { en: "The inner planets round the Sun", ja: "太陽と内側の惑星 (本当の距離)" }, scene: fromList(["sun", "mercury", "venus", "earth", "mars"], { arrange: "orbit", scale: "readable", moons: "auto", orbits: true, bg: "black" }) },
]

Examples

import { PORTRAIT_PRESETS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets";

console.log(PORTRAIT_PRESETS.map((preset) => preset.id).join(", "));
family, giants, galileans, earthmoon, marsmoons, orrery

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.