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Another picture of Saturn (3200x1800, CG)
Taken with Space Engine 0.990.37.1720
Space looks very different to how film and television might show. Lots of sci-fi shows or movies portray the stars and galaxy behind a planet, and while it can look pretty, it also is very unrealistic. Stars are very dim. The galaxy is even dimmer. Anybody that lives in a light-pollluted area knows these things. Sunlight, and the light from it that shines onto the planets, is very very bright. This is why you can’t see stars during the day time. You can turn the exposure of your camera up to see both the planet and the stars, but then the planet becomes blindingly bright, and you get lots of camera glare.
Images taken using Space Engine 0.990.37.1720
Unrelated spiritual stuff below
This post probably sounds like nitpicking, and I guess it is. I’m not sure if I like the spirit of space being tampered with just to make things look better in a blockbuster movie. I believe the darkness and quietness is what contains the energy of space, and that feature of it is sacred. Space to me is an ocean, and filling space with clouds/nebulae and planets in a fictional setting feels a lot like completely filling the oceans with seaweed and sand. Planets are extremely far apart, and that is a blessing, as otherwise they would collide with each other. I don’t really have any personal grudges on people that exaggerate space for visual or story related reasons, I think it’s more of a cultural issue, and one that will be resolved over enough time as life on Earth begins to wander into space.
The burning sun begins to set behind a large volcano.
Gas giant with violet-colored clouds and rings.
Twin sunrise on a Mercury-like planet.
The active atmosphere of a Venus-like planet, baking under its sun.
The shadow of a moon's eclipse is visible across this gas giant’s rings.
Front row seat to a galactic merger.
The northern pole of a large moon orbiting the blue gas giant. The clouds like structures visible are two galaxies in the process of colliding.
Picture of the Day - February 16, 2019 (Late post)
An eclipse of one sun.
Picture of the day - February 15, 2019
Gas giant with vivid violet rings.
Picture of the day - February 14, 2019 (Late Post).
A dark nebula obscures the galaxy.
Picture of the Day - February 13, 2019 (Late post)
Uniquely colored desert world with life.
Pictures of the Day - February 12, 2019 (Late Post)
Stormy atmosphere of a gas giant. The planet orbits a binary pair of stars consisting of a white F-Type star and a bright blue B-type star
Picture of the Day - February 11, 2019 (Late post)
Blue ice giant with blue rings.
Pictures of the day - February 10, 2019 (Late post).
Montage of lunar skies.
Pictures of the Day - February 9, 2019
Mars-like desert world.
Pictures of the Day - February 8, 2019 - (Late Post)
Weird red-tinted ice giant orbiting Bernard's Star viewed from the surface of several of it's asteroid moons.
Picture of the Day - February 7, 2019 - (Late Post)
The limb of a gas giant orbiting Wolf 359.
Picture of the day - February 6, 2019 - (Very late post)
Ringed ocean world with greenish-gray colored oceans. The Carina Nebula fills the sky in the background.
Picture of the Day - February 5, 2019 - (Very late post)
I've decided to travel back home in Space Engine.
Earth and the Moon.
Picture of the day - February 3, 2019 - (Very late post)
Stormy atmosphere of a gas giant.
Picture of the Day - February 2, 2019 - (Very Late Post)
The core of a galaxy.
Pictures of the day 2 - February 1, 2019 - (very late post)
I decided to try something different this time. I found this large moon orbiting beautiful a blue gas giant and decided to take pictures of the sky overlooking a mountain at different times in the moon's orbit. The only time the moon ever gets dark is during an eclipse, otherwise the reflected light from the gas giant illuminates the surface in a bluish tinted light at night.
Space Engine System ID: RS 0-5-14693-319-17241-6-194958-8 3.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine.
Picture of the day - February 1, 2019 - (Very late post)
Heavily cratered Mars-like planet.
Picture of the Day - January 30, 2019 - (Very late post)
Violet-colored planet with its two moons.
Picture of the Day - January 28, 2019
Gas giant with purple cloud bands hangs in the sky of a large rocky moon.
Picture of the Day - January 26, 2019
Barren and battered worlds.
Picture of the Day - January 24, 2019
Desert world and it's large moon.