TL;DR: here is the link to the simulation: http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/eclipse2017.html A few years ago, I programmed jsOrrery, a Solar System simulation in the browser. …

Note: this is a story I originally wrote in 2013 jsOrrery is a Solar System / orbital mechanics simulation, or orrery, that I wrote in WebGL and Javascript. It is based on a previous 2D simulation that I made in Flash, but that was not accurate, nor much interesting for…