A page for gathering and working with interesting planetary data with the end-goal of acquiring interesting data for folks who aren't well-versed in planetary and orbital science. Created primarily because I wanted a page where I could get data easily without having to constantly do math.
http://dev.sethduncan.com/star-calculator/
- Entering a radius returns a list of other values that can be calculated from the radius.
- Entering mass will return the force of gravity in m/s^2 as well as the Earth-relative g-force.
- Shows distance to the other major bodies in the solar system. Polls this data on page-load.
- Write in attribution for CC license on highcharts
- Think of really cool ways to integrate highcharts
- Brainstorm a way to show "viewable in your location now" page. Compare space things w/ weather & location (cities rule out dimmer objects, for example) to simply show you "what you can see from where you at"
- Create a "slide mode" to rotate through slides with interesting data (for display purposes)
- Add a slider for "radius"?
- Add buttons for each planet measurement field to auto-fill that field with the value for a specific planet
- Find more APIs with interesting data (solar data, satellite data, etc)
- Uses javascript/jQuery/html/css - no server required
- Relies on http://www.astro-phys.com for planetary location data
- Seth Duncan
- sethduncan@gmail.com
- @djsethduncan