https://github.com/celestiary/web

Astronomical simulator of solar system and local stars
https://github.com/celestiary/web

3d astronomy astrophysical-simulation glsl glsl-shaders javascript three-js virtual-reality webgl webgl2

Last synced: 2 months ago
JSON representation

Astronomical simulator of solar system and local stars

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/celestiary/web
• Owner: celestiary
• Created: 2015-09-03T22:29:07.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-21T23:53:26.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-29T05:22:32.649Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: 3d, astronomy, astrophysical-simulation, glsl, glsl-shaders, javascript, three-js, virtual-reality, webgl, webgl2
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://celestiary.github.io/
• Size: 74.6 MB
• Stars: 44
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 28
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml

Awesome Lists containing this project

• vr-resources - celestiary, Astronomical simulator web app

README

        
# Celestiary



A celestial simulator inspired by Celestia

(http://shatters.net/celestia), written in JS/three.js/GLSL.

A running instance of Celestiary is available at:

https://celestiary.github.io/

## Features

- 9 planets, 20 moons. Accurate major planet orbits

- 106,747 stars, 5,672 names

- 89 constellations

- Time controls for rate and direction of time

- Kinda works on mobile! :)

See [open issues](https://github.com/celestiary/celestiary/issues) page for upcoming features. 

## Development

```

yarn install

yarn test

yarn serve

# Visit http://localhost:8080/

```

Edits in the source directory will be available in the app on a page refresh.

For larger changes, it's also a good idea to step through the guide pages (in /guide) to make sure they'll all working.

## Deploy

The app runs at https://celestiary.github.io/ and is in the celestiary.github.io repo.  From it grab the changes from the web repo and then push them:

```

git pull upstream master

git push

```

## Performance

A first-time session downloads ~3-5MB, mostly of the stars data.  Planet textures are lazy-fetched as the user moves around the scene, but will bring that upwards to ~10MB in full.

Everything is highly cacheable, so subsequent visits are brief HEAD checks on root resources.

Warm load on a local server is 260B in ~300ms (mostly cache checking).  Page rendering finishes by 1s.