Target-EarthTimelapse from the object's viewpoint Windows · 1.20.0

Target-Earth for Windows

Earth, seen from the incoming object

A source-traceable local timelapse for current NEOCP/PCCP objects and verified pre-impact discoveries.

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Verified historical impactors

From 2008 TC3 to the ESA-priority 2026 JN4 reconstruction, with source disagreements left visible.

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2022 WJ1 submission records

OBS80 rows, MPC arrival batches and PSEUDO-MPEC orbit stages are reconstructed locally.

30 fps

Directly rendered event films

Twelve public YouTube films, derived from validated 4K masters without motion interpolation.

Target-Earth object view showing an illuminated Earth, observatory markers and the timeline

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What Target-Earth does

The camera is evaluated at the object and continuously aims at the Earth's centre. Object, Earth and Sun share the same UTC epoch. Earth orientation, solar illumination, station geography, front/back classification and the impact endpoint are rendered from that state. A private offscreen backbuffer is presented atomically to avoid half-drawn frames.

The desktop application is self-contained, uses a loopback-only local web server and opens external MPC, MPEC, station and map links in the normal browser.