Stellar Cartographers - Useful guide in visualisation

[Commander Drax]

have a look at this, useful or what?

http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/2006/06/23/you_think_the_earth_is_big

But outdated now that Pluto is no longer a planet, but useful all the same.

 

[fredofmars]

I've seen this before (on a different Web site?). This shows the size comparisons very well. It still doesn't show distances, but those are pretty hard to fathom anyway.

 

[Peter Schutze]

>It still doesn't show distances, but those are pretty hard to fathom anyway

I've made a map of the solar system showing orbits and gravity wells to scale in the gallery .... Jupiter and Saturn are large enough to actually appear as dots rather than just orbits

100 diameter limit .... aim anywhere in our solar system and you are almost garuanteed to miss everything's gravity well. Forget "gravity shadowing" .... aim to miss the moons of any planet and you're well away from the 100 diameter limit

 

[Icosahedron]

100 diameter limit .... aim anywhere in our solar system and you are almost garuanteed to miss everything's gravity well. Forget "gravity shadowing" .... aim to miss the moons of any planet and you're well away from the 100 diameter limit

You are? Earth's moon is at 60 radii, or 30 diameters, and the sun's 100D limit extends almost as far out as Earth's orbit.