thinking another possible way to get probe location in solar system might be by using pointing angle of DSN dish (also in dsn raw feed as ra and dec i believe) combined with the distance-to-probe (w/ location on earth globe and TOD). In pyephem you can convert between coordinate systems http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/coordinates.html and astropy may be useful
we don't need animation but might be nice to have some subtle behavior/interaction take place - or at least have the option, even if just on first load - rather than serving purely static image, so kinda thinking would like the image to be front-end generated.. Canvas? backend just supplies some numbers..
basilleaf
commented
8 years ago 
thinking another possible way to get probe location in solar system might be by using pointing angle of DSN dish (also in dsn raw feed as ra and dec i believe) combined with the distance-to-probe (w/ location on earth globe and TOD). In pyephem you can convert between coordinate systems http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/coordinates.html and astropy may be useful
ok how nerdy would it be to display it all in css with border radius to make circles + ellipses? http://cssdeck.com/labs/css-only-solar-system-model
haha j/k not a masochistkinda want towe don't need animation but might be nice to have some subtle behavior/interaction take place - or at least have the option, even if just on first load - rather than serving purely static image, so kinda thinking would like the image to be front-end generated.. Canvas? backend just supplies some numbers..
and ok i just love this little css animation <3 http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2013/03/03/animating-circular-paths-using-css3-transitions/
todo!