Credits
Farseer is free to use, with no advertising and nothing for sale. Everything real in its sky comes from the catalogs, surveys and missions below; the generated parts are marked as generated wherever they appear.
Stars
- HYG database v4.4David Nash, astronexus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Exoplanets
- NASA Exoplanet Archive, Planetary Systems Composite ParametersNASA / Caltech-IPAC · DOI 10.26133/NEA13
This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program.
Galaxies
Star clusters
- Catalog of Milky Way globular clustersHarris 1996, AJ 112, 1487 (2010 edition)
- Open clusters and moving groupsHunt & Reffert 2023, A&A 673, A114 · from Gaia DR3
Nebulae
- CatalogOpenNGC · Mattia Verga · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Depth along the line of sightEdenhofer et al. 2024, A&A 685, A82 · 3D dust map · CC BY 4.0
- Member starsGaia DR3 · ESA/Gaia/DPAC · CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
- MembershipSIMBAD, CDS Strasbourg (Wenger et al. 2000) · Chornay & Walton 2021, A&A 656, A110 · Getman et al. 2019, MNRAS 487, 2977
- Planetary nebula shellsO'Dell et al. 2013 and 2004 · Meaburn et al. 2005 · Clairmont, Steffen & Koning 2022 · Sabbadin et al. 2004
This work presents results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission Gaia. Gaia data are being processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC).
Interstellar dust
- 3D extinction mapVergely, Lallement & Cox 2022, A&A 664, A174
Moons and orbits
- Satellite ephemerides, sizes and shapesNASA/JPL-Caltech · R. A. Jacobson et al. · JPL Solar System Dynamics and NAIF
- Satellite photometryVerbiscer et al. 2007 and the JPL planetary satellite fact sheets
Galactic structure and stellar physics
- Spiral armsReid et al. 2019, ApJ 885, 131
- Main-sequence stellar classesPecaut & Mamajek 2013, ApJS 208, 9
Photographs of galaxies and nebulae
- 261 photographsDigitized Sky Survey — STScI/AURA, © Caltech, AAO; via CDS hips2fits
Planets, moons and rings
- CallistoCallisto Galileo/Voyager Global Mosaic 1km · USGS Astrogeology / NASA/JPL / PDS
- CharonCharon New Horizons LORRI-MVIC Global Mosaic 300m (Jul 2017, 8-bit) · NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / LPI; published by USGS Astrogeology · Schenk et al. 2018, Icarus 315, 124-145
- DeimosStooke Small Bodies Maps: Deimos simple cylindrical global photomosaic (Viking + MRO HiRISE) · Philip Stooke; control by Peter Thomas et al.; NASA PDS Small Bodies Node · Stooke, MULTI-SA-MULTI-6-STOOKEMAPS, NASA PDS
- DioneColor Maps of Dione - 2014 (PIA18434, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 250 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- EarthBlue Marble Next Generation (monthly, 2004), June composite · NASA Earth Observatory (Reto Stockli, NASA GSFC)
- Earth (night lights)Black Marble 2016, night lights global composite, 3 km · NASA Earth Observatory (Joshua Stevens), Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Roman, NASA GSFC
- Earth (clouds)Blue Marble (2002) global cloud cover composite, 8k · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Blue Marble (Reto Stockli)
- Earth (water mask)Water mask derived from the NASA Earth Observatory GEBCO_08 global elevation image (sea level = 0) · NASA Earth Observatory (Jesse Allen), GEBCO_08 grid from the British Oceanographic Data Centre
- EnceladusColor Maps of Enceladus - 2014 (PIA18435, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 100 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- EuropaEuropa Voyager - Galileo SSI Global Mosaic 500m · USGS Astrogeology (Tammy Becker) / NASA/JPL / PDS
- GanymedeGanymede Voyager - Galileo SSI Color Global Mosaic 1.4km · USGS Astrogeology / NASA/JPL / PDS
- IapetusColor Maps of Iapetus - 2014 (PIA18436, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 400 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- IoIo Galileo SSI / Voyager Color Merged Global Mosaic 1km · USGS Astrogeology / NASA/JPL / PDS
- JupiterCassini's Best Maps of Jupiter, cylindrical (PIA07782) · NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- MarsMars Viking Colorized Global Mosaic 232m (MDIM 2.1 colorized) · NASA/JPL/USGS; colorization by NASA Ames
- Mars (relief)MOLA Mission Experiment Gridded Data Record, global topography, 16 px/deg (MEGT90N000EB) · NASA / GSFC / MOLA team (D. E. Smith); PDS Geosciences Node · MOLA team (Smith et al. 2001)
- MercuryMercury MESSENGER MDIS Global Color Mosaic 665m v3 · NASA / Johns Hopkins University APL / Arizona State University / Carnegie Science; USGS Astrogeology
- Mercury (relief)Mercury MESSENGER Global DEM 665m v2 (USGS, MDIS stereo with MLA control) · USGS Astrogeology (K. J. Becker et al.); NASA / JHU APL / Carnegie Science · Becker et al. 2016 (LPSC 47, 2959)
- MimasColor Maps of Mimas - 2014 (PIA18437, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 200 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- MoonCGI Moon Kit, LROC color map, 2025 version, 16-bit sRGB, 16k · NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
- Moon (relief)LOLA Gridded Data Record, global cylindrical DEM, 64 px/deg (LDEM_64) · NASA / GSFC / LOLA team (D. E. Smith, M. T. Zuber); PDS Geosciences Node · LOLA team (Smith et al. 2010)
- NeptuneHubble OPAL Neptune global map, rotation 2025b (Cycle 32) · NASA/ESA/STScI, OPAL (Simon et al.) · CC BY 4.0
- PhobosPhobos Viking Global Mosaic 5m (Stooke, DLR-controlled, 2012) · Phil Stooke / NASA PDS / USGS Astrogeology · Stooke 2012, PDS STOOKEMAPS
- PlutoPluto New Horizons LORRI-MVIC Global Mosaic 300m (Jul 2017, 8-bit) · NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / LPI; published by USGS Astrogeology · Schenk et al. 2018, Icarus 314, 400-433
- RheaColor Maps of Rhea - 2014 (PIA18438, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 400 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- SaturnCassini ISS RGB Saturn Global Color Map, original (PDS4 co_iss_global-maps, Li et al. 2023) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute / PDS Atmospheres Node · Li, West, Jiang, Knowles 2023, DOI 10.17189/rkkb-6y30
- TethysColor Maps of Tethys - 2014 (PIA18439, Schenk 3-color mosaic, 250 m/px) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPI (mosaic by Paul Schenk)
- TitanTitan Cassini ISS Global Mosaic 4005m (938 nm surface map) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute (ISS team) / USGS Astrogeology
- TritonTriton Voyager 2 Global Color Mosaic 600m (GlobalFill, from PIA18668) · NASA/JPL-Caltech / LPI (map by Paul Schenk); Photojournal PIA18668
- UranusHubble OPAL Uranus global map, rotation 2025a (Cycle 33) · NASA/ESA/STScI, OPAL (Simon et al.) · CC BY 4.0
- Venus (radar)Venus Magellan Global C3-MDIR Synthetic Color Mosaic 4641m · NASA/JPL/Magellan, PDS Geosciences Node; mosaic by USGS Astrogeology
- Saturn's ringsA Full Sweep of Saturn's Rings, natural color radial mosaic (PIA11142) · NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- Saturn's rings (optical depth)Cassini UVIS HSP stellar occultation normal optical depth profile, beta Centauri egress 2008-313, 1 km bins (COUVIS_8001 v3.0, CO-SR-UVIS-HSP-2/4-OCC-V3.0) · NASA/JPL-Caltech/LASP / PDS Ring-Moon Systems Node · Colwell et al. 2010, AJ 140, 1569, DOI 10.1088/0004-6256/140/6/1569
Software
- three.jsthree.js authors · MIT licence
Terms
- Using FarseerThe site is free and non-commercial. Pictures made with it may be shared for non-commercial purposes; please credit Farseer and, where a photograph of a galaxy or nebula is in frame, the Digitized Sky Survey.
- Non-commercial sourcesThe 2MASS Redshift Survey (an AAS table distributed by CDS), the Digitized Sky Survey photographs (© STScI/AURA, Caltech, AAO) and Gaia (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO). These set the terms of the data as a whole.
- Share-alikeHYG and OpenNGC are CC BY-SA 4.0. The star, galaxy and nebula files Farseer builds from them carry the same licence.
- AttributionThe Hubble OPAL maps of Uranus and Neptune and the Edenhofer dust map are CC BY 4.0.
- CitationThe remaining catalogs and papers are free to use with the citations given on their lines above. The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Gaia ask for the acknowledgements printed under their sections.
- Public domainThe NASA, USGS and JPL maps, ephemerides and ring data are US government works. NASA asks that its imagery be credited.