Lightcone 3D / 4D atlas · v0.5

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"HUDF cone" looks down the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with a 3° field of view; other presets use 55°.
Gaia DR3 stars move with their measured proper motions and radial velocities when the clock runs. Planets, asteroids and satellites are computed from orbital elements at the clock's instant. Galaxies are static at their catalogued distances.
"Local flow" looks at the supergalactic plane face-on: each Cosmicflows-4 galaxy within 100 Mpc whose peculiar velocity is at least 2σ (and under 1,500 km/s: larger is a distance error) gets an arrow from its measured distance to where a Hubble flow of 74.6 km/s/Mpc (the catalog's own zero point) would put it, warm receding faster than the flow, cool slower, brighter the more significant; only the line-of-sight component is measured, so arrows are radial.
Euclid Q1 data: ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA · Gaia: ESA/Gaia/DPAC · Euclid terms
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