- [url]https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/[/url] author wrote:Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).
Gaia Sky (astronomy simulator)
Gaia Sky (astronomy simulator)
Just found Gaia Sky (https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/), a free (MPL 2.0) multi-platform JRE 7+ dependent stars viewer. There's no mention of portability, but it might be possible with jportable and some software tweaking fu...
Re: Gaia Sky (astronomy simulator)
Nice find. Thanks
Found another one called Space Engine. Looks very nice but it really does need a beefy system to run smoothly
Although it claims to be portable, it is portable but you must install it as normal
http://spaceengine.org/download/spaceengine
SpaceEngine is a portable application. You may simply copy the entire SpaceEngine folder to another location and run SpaceEngine.exe, located in the system subfolder. You should not copy the “cache” subfolder though – it will be created automatically.
Found another one called Space Engine. Looks very nice but it really does need a beefy system to run smoothly
Although it claims to be portable, it is portable but you must install it as normal
http://spaceengine.org/download/spaceengine
SpaceEngine is a portable application. You may simply copy the entire SpaceEngine folder to another location and run SpaceEngine.exe, located in the system subfolder. You should not copy the “cache” subfolder though – it will be created automatically.