Solar System object sizes comparisons - Celestia

[King]

I hope computer program grabs are appropriate for this forum. It seemed like the place best suited to these but I wanted to share them.

In retrospect there're a couple of layout improvements I could have done with the first two but I'm quite happy with the Sun one. I couldn't make that image any smaller because Ceres already appears only 1px.

Links:

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2227/solarsystemcelestia.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9906/solarsystemrocks.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7035/solarsystemsun.jpg

As the title states, the planetary graphics are taken from the free (and cool) download, Celestia. The Sun image (which is yesterday's Sun actually) was taken from "Helioviewer" which is a very handy website resource.

[Mike73]

Very cool!

Thanks for putting these together.

[King]

I'm aware that Ceres has been promoted to dwarf-planet which renders my inclusion of it as the "largest asteroid" dated but I stand by my choice because to cater for a smaller body I'd ahve had to make the scale even bigger.

[King]

*"have" (seems I've lost the ability to edit post...).

I just made a more monitor-friendly version of the solar one with a new layout:

http://img341.images...rsystemsun2.jpg

[Cath]

Very nice

Thank you for sharing!