Mitaka
Japanese

Space Mode

In this space mode, you can see various structures in the Universe ranging from the topography of the Earth to the large scale structure of the Universe. Mitaka uses various observational data and theoretical models from modern astronomy.

Planets and Satellites

All the planets and major satellites in the solar system can be seen.

Earth and Moon Jupiter and its satellites Pluto and its satellite, Charon

*) Textures for Pluto, Charon and Sedna are fictional images.

Topography of Planets

For Earth and Mars, you can see some place names or their topography, if topographical data are installed.
Amplification factor of the topography is variable. It can be changed from the menu bar from unity to twenty.

Earth
Zoom in on Mt. Everest. The topography is amplified by 5 times.
Vicinity of Japan Hawaii island and SUBARU telescope
Mars
Zoom in on Olympus Mons. The topography is amplified by 5 times.
Valles Marineris Topography around Mars Pathfinder Famous place names of Mars

Nearby Stars

Nearby stars (within 3000 l.y.) observed by the Hipparcos satellite can be seen.

Nearby stars The Pleiades star cluster

Our Galaxy and Globular Clusters

Our galaxy and globular clusters, in which we cannot determine all the positions of stars by observation, are displayed using theoretical models.

Our galaxy model Edge on view of the model of our galaxy Globular cluster model generated using the `King model'

Distribution of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Mitaka uses Tully's Nearby Galaxies Catalogue for nearby galaxies (within 100 million l.y.) and data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey for distant galaxies.

Distribution of nearby galaxies Large scale structure of the Universe