Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
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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.
HN · launched Aug 12, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 39%) · 0 views
Niche: stargazing and astronomy weather apps · 90 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 176 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 177 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sky Calendar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Gravity · hn · 2026-06-09 · 217 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- earth-moon-solar · github · 2026-09-10 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range · hn · 2026-01-21 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SOLAR · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Track the Moon · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Floating in Space Watching the earth · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DailySpace, Android app for exploring space photos and rocket launches · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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