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Monday, 17 November 2014

Hydrogen Sky rising over Boston


Looking almost due east, so I can use the hi-res GALFA images for this. There's an annoying white spot that doesn't move for some reason, but since this is the third time I've rendered this I've stopped caring.

I used a similar animation of Prague for my first public talk ("Why the night sky is really boring and how to fix it") on Friday, it seemed to go down well. I plan to do a few more of these for selected international locations.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for this, it spins some creative ideas in my mind. So double thank you. 😊 👍 👍 👍

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