The Solar System

[rockbloodystar]

So this is to scale(ish)

The horizontal distances (SMA of objects orbiting the sun directly) are to a single log scale.

The sizes of all objects are to a single log scale.

The vertical distances (SMA of natural satellites) are to a single log scale.

It's where you've been living this whole time.

Kerbol system might follow.

Anyone know a program with sufficiently good geomtry to locate and precisely measure these things AND allow good looking design?

Cheers,

RBS.

Edited March 5, 2015 by rockbloodystar
image link corrected.

[Starwhip]

"To scale-ish" is a bit of an overstatement... What happened to the Sun and the inner (or outer) planets?!

I'd suggest picking a "unit per pixel" measurement (You might need a 10,000 x 100,000 pixel image. Or not, if you want small representations a few pixels across) and basing both location and scale off of that.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Uuuumm... this doesn't look to scale at all! Might I recommend this beautiful website: http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

which shows the entire solar system to complete, accurate scale.

[BlueCosmology]

Uuuumm... this doesn't look to scale at all! Might I recommend this beautiful website: http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

which shows the entire solar system to complete, accurate scale.

It looks pretty spot on to scale. Look up what a log scale is.

[rockbloodystar]

"To scale-ish" is a bit of an overstatement... What happened to the Sun and the inner (or outer) planets?!

I'd suggest picking a "unit per pixel" measurement (You might need a 10,000 x 100,000 pixel image. Or not, if you want small representations a few pixels across) and basing both location and scale off of that.

And what size sheet would be needed to see Ceres or Umbriel?

Log scale gets round that accurately.