{"id":34676,"date":"2025-09-04T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34676"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:59:39","slug":"a-planetarium-in-the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34676","title":{"rendered":"A Planetarium in the Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may not be useful, but it is undoubtedly cool &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/da-luce\/astroterm\">Astroterm<\/a>, a planetarium in the Linux terminal!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_20250903_212904-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"A fullscreen Linux terminal, with a star map\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-34678\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as powerful (or as pretty) as Stellarium, but it is every bit as impressive, if not more so.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s of any real use, but it&#8217;s the kind of thing I can run in the background in a workspace and then switch to during the night (or day) and watch the sky turn.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Space brings back boyish wonder&#8230;&#8221;<\/i> &#8212; Carbon Leaf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may not be useful, but it is undoubtedly cool &#8212; Astroterm, a planetarium in the Linux terminal! It&#8217;s not as powerful (or as pretty) as Stellarium, but it is every bit as impressive, if not more so. I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s of any real use, but it&#8217;s the kind of thing I can<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34676\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Planetarium in the Terminal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4111,5140],"class_list":["post-34676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-linux","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}