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Originally Posted by duck_duck
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That's a coincidence. Last night I had Celestia up. I was following Saturn, setting the clock to run at 100000x so that each second was about 30 hours. At that speed the satellites spun around Saturn and Saturn was moving against the stars. If I had had a really large screen, I would have put it put there and put on some nice classical music. At once point I had the speed up at 1,000,000 and was watching the galaxies spin by. I think I ended up in the year 2525 (song reference).
Here is my view of Saturn. I have max stars and constellations turned on so the screen is a little crowded. If I turn up the speed, the moons of Saturn become apparent since they being to move faster than the stars.
Very cool program.
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