Marble: Create a new blog entry about the new rendering of planets
completed by: Illya Kovalevskyy
mentors: Torsten Rahn, Dennis Nienhüser, René Küttner
Before your start blogging you should make sure that your blog is aggregated to
planet.osgeo.org
planetkde.org
planet.qt-project.org
Please blog about
- How Marble can be used to visualize planets for observing or to get a better understanding about the solar-system
- Look-up planet-conjunction highlights in 2014:
http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2014.html
http://www.go-astronomy.com/solar-system/planets-conjunctions.htm
and create screenshots of these events in Marble
- Describe how planets can be turned on and off in the settings dialog
- Describe another feature that has been added recently: So far we only had proper sunshading for earth and some sunshading for the moon. With recent changes in master we have sun shading for all planets.
- Download Mars24 sunclock (a Java application) and display Mars and it's terminator and sunshading in a map
- Create a screenshot for the very same time in Marble using the same projection and sunshading