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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 · Where the Sun, Moon and planets are for a date, in two scales, with the camera maths

placeSunfunction

The Sun, from the Earth's centre: in a compressed view always 44 Earth radii away, in its real direction.

Import it

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

Definition

function placeSun(mode: ScaleMode, geo: Vec3): Vec3

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
modeScaleMode

The scale.

geoVec3

The Sun's place in astronomical units from the Earth's centre.

Returns

Vec3

Where to draw it, in Earth radii.

Examples

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

console.log(placeSun("compressed", [1, 0, 0]));
[ 44, 0, 0 ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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