A new view, linecast sky, draws the night sky from where you stand and knows the constellations of twenty-two traditions. Every live view now has a ? help panel, and w a s d pan.
New this version:
- Sky:
linecast skyshows the sky above you: the stars, the constellation figures and their names, the planets, the Moon at its phase, the Sun, and the Milky Way once the sky is dark. Drag to look around, zoom with+and-, scroll through time, and presspto watch the night pass.--jsonand--onelinesay what is up. Uselinecast sky --location "auckland"to see the sky from another location. - Sky:
/searches by name for a star, a planet, a constellation, or an asterism such as the Big Dipper or Orion's Belt, and the view flies to it. If it is below the horizon, the panel says when and where it rises, and Enter again moves the clock to that moment.--at Orionopens on one. - Sky:
tchooses among the constellations and star names of twenty-two traditions, from the Chinese lunar mansions to the Hawaiian star lines and H. A. Rey's figures.--cultureandlinecast culturepick one to open on, and Chinese comes with the language. CULTURES.md lists the sources. - Sky: With the Hawaiian culture, the horizon carries the navigators' star compass, thirty-two houses from Hikina round to Komohana, and directions are given by house.
- Sky: Zooming in reveals fainter stars, from a catalog of nearly 117,000, and the galaxies, nebulae and clusters of the Messier list as faint glows. The pointer names them, and
/finds them. - Sky:
mturns toward the Moon when it is up. The Sun and the Moon are cut by the skyline as they rise and set. - Every live view has a
?help panel that lists its controls in the display language, and a? keyshint points to it. - Sky, maps and radar:
wasdpan the view. Maps moves daylight and directions toSandD; radar moves wind and satellite toWandS.