Nekar Xenos <go_### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I would like to be 
> able to do a flyby of the solar system with warp-speed between planets.

  I'm not sure such a flyby would be as exciting as it might sound, at
least if you use accurate measurements.
  If you just fly at ultra-high-speed between the planets and then slow
down a lot near the planets, it would simply be a series of animations
showing the individual planets. All the sections in between would show
a black screen (unless you artificially enhance the brightness of the
stars, which would then just look like small white dots which don't move
or move just fractions of a pixel). You could just as well make a flyby
animation of each planet and then append them to one animation.

  In TV you sometimes see a "flyby" of the solar system, but they usually
exaggerate planet sizes and shorten distances by several orders of
magnitude in order to keep the animation interesting. It's not very
realistic nor accurate. (They also make the mistake of using overbright
stars which are seen at the same time as a brightly-sunlit planet, which
in reality would be quite a photographic challenge.)

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