Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
Details
- External ID
- 49272252
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
- Website domain
- lifesprites.com
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6088709677419355
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I made this little walkthrough for finding the visible planets tonight and a meteor shower shooting start counter. Plus a little model of the solar system to try to wrap my head around what's going on. It's all based on your location if you provide it.lifesprites.com/solar.html doesn't require account creation. The rest does. It's free, but you need an account.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- astronomy event tracking kit
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side web visualizer using standard astronomical calculation libraries and canvas/CSS rendering based on geolocation.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Moon positioned too far from Earth in visualization, Cloud coverage obscured celestial events in actual observation, Model doesn't account for moon's orbital tilt (z-axis missing), US measurements only, lacks international unit support
Feature requests: Support metric/international measurements, Improve moon distance scaling for accurate mental model, Add z-axis representation for orbital plane tilt
Competitors
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Attention rank: #49 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.