Welcome to Realistic Telescope Simulator! Before you play this project, first listen to some instructions (mobile compatible): ------------------------- Desktop -------------------------- - Move your mouse around to simulate where your eye is. - Use the 2D slider to rotate your telescope - Scroll up or down to rotate the focus wheel of the telescope. - Click on the different eyepieces for different magnification - Have fun and explore the night sky! --------------------------- Mobile -------------------------- - Move your finger around to simulate where your eye is - Use the 2D slider to rotate your telescope - Use the slider on the right hand side to rotate the focus wheel of the telescope - Tap on different eyepieces for different magnification - Have fun and explore the sky!
This project is for the Scratch Camp 2023 week 1. I recently read that Scratch Camp 2023 is here on the Scratch News. I was intrigued, so I clicked on it and it lead me to the Star Gazers studio to create a project about star gazing. So, instantly my first idea was to make a realistic telescope simulator project to simulate how to operate a telescope since I had a lot of experience with astrophotography. I got to work on making the project as realistic as possible, making it so you have to move your telescope without any keys, but rather with a 2d slider to simulate rotating a telescope. I also made different eyepieces for my telescope to select different magnification. I made a formula (not really realistic) that makes the blur effect when you didn't focus your telescope correctly. I also made a "mobile mode" to make my project more compatible with other devices. Lots of updates are on the way so stay tuned! P.S. the small moving dots are shooting stars. Remix this project and add your own unique night sky! (if you want to make objects high quality make an individual sprite and add the code that is commented on the "Stars" sprite) Credits: Moon: NASA Stars: @Babybrine Mars design: @Babybrine Programming: Update log (dd/mm/yyyy): 28/07/2023 v1.00: Shared project. 29/07/2023 v1.01: Made the moon higher quality and added 20x magnification eyepiece. 29/07/2023 v1.02: Made the moon be brighter when your mouse is not near it to simulate your eyes dilating (let me know in the comments if I should keep this, remove it, or make it an option.) 04/08/2023 v1.03: Added Saturn, eyepiece 30x, eyepiece 40x, eyepiece 50x, eyepiece 75x, and eyepiece 100x. Changed the code for the blurs to round to the nearest integer to prevent images being blurred even with correct focus. 04/08/2023 v1.04: Made mobile players choose eyepieces easier by showing info without pressing on it. 04/08/2023 v1.04.1: Fixed the cut off Saturn.
