The Animated Virtual Planetarium

Notes for Teachers

The "Visible" Solar System
View the solar system from space and
Earth (based on the VSOP '87 model).

The World's Horizon
View the horizon from anywhere on Earth,
at any time

Earth/Moon System Simulation
Now with Eclipse predictions!

  Comet Simulation
Watch the comets make their way through the solar system -
Halley, Hale-Bopp, Swift-Tuttle, and over 200 others!




                    Alternative Solar System Models
                         Ptolemy/Tycho/Copernicus


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October, 2012