Absolutely wonderful and humbling. I made a very simple one with just the sun and the inner planets. It was such a fun and such a work. I can barely imagine the magnitude of what you just accomplished.
This has probably been answered before but here goes: Is there a demo setting when its installed in the cock to show the movement of the planets and moons like its working in the video or will be be running one at real time only?
Hi Christopher, yes there is a demo function. In fact there is a two speed transmission. In demonstration mode, one revolution of the hand crank is 24 hours, this drives all of the celestial functions simultaneously, the planisphere, tellurion, orrery, Sun/Moon, and calendar. Then a second "fast mode" that disconnects everything but the orrery for 10X speed. This is done to demonstrate the movement of the planets of Jupiter and Saturn as their orbits are 11.86 and 29.46 years and so would barely move at the lower speed, but at 10x they move, however, 10x is too fast for many of the other celestial indicators that cycle daily like the calendar, planisphere and Sun/Moon indicators. You can see what the transmission looks like here: www.my-time-machines.net/astro_11-13.htm .
impressionnant, est-ce que vous vendez un kit complet ou les plans ? j'aimerai beaucoup avoir un model de votre création mais je n'ai pas suffisamment de compétence
There are no kit or plans. It took twelve years to build and was done as we went. It is a one of a kind that cost well over seven figures. So no there are no plans and certainly no kit. But for $2 or $3 million, you may be able to replicate it.
Hello Mark, much respect for the stellar work you have done. I have to ask, why did you choose to omit the outer 3 planets? This is absolutely beautiful nonetheless
We based the design on Mathias Hahn's original made in 1780. These were the planets known at the time. If you go to: www.my-time-machines.net/astro-06-18.htm, you will see the original and the reasoning behind our decision to use this design. Another reason is that space is limited, again if you go to the website and follow the design and build progress you will see why. Making everything smaller to fit the existing space means making all the parts smaller. In this module we begin to make wheels on the scale of a pocket watch which are the limits of Buchanan's tooling. Making parts on the scale of a watch is an entirely different realm of tooling and skill sets.
Absolutely wonderful and humbling. I made a very simple one with just the sun and the inner planets. It was such a fun and such a work. I can barely imagine the magnitude of what you just accomplished.
mind boggling work my guy. a true clockwork masterpiece
This is absolutely beautiful. I don't have the words.
The gear cutting in this piece is mind blowing.
Mark, you always amaze me!
Just gonna ask a you. Are you of this world or just passing through... Seriously?
The most impressive
espectacular, una verdadera obra de arte!
This is incredible
This is brilliant! Are you some kind of alien or just a genius?
This has probably been answered before but here goes: Is there a demo setting when its installed in the cock to show the movement of the planets and moons like its working in the video or will be be running one at real time only?
Hi Christopher, yes there is a demo function. In fact there is a two speed transmission. In demonstration mode, one revolution of the hand crank is 24 hours, this drives all of the celestial functions simultaneously, the planisphere, tellurion, orrery, Sun/Moon, and calendar. Then a second "fast mode" that disconnects everything but the orrery for 10X speed. This is done to demonstrate the movement of the planets of Jupiter and Saturn as their orbits are 11.86 and 29.46 years and so would barely move at the lower speed, but at 10x they move, however, 10x is too fast for many of the other celestial indicators that cycle daily like the calendar, planisphere and Sun/Moon indicators. You can see what the transmission looks like here: www.my-time-machines.net/astro_11-13.htm .
I obliged to the engineer who designed it n produced it such a complicated machine. Lot of love for him/her.
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This is beautiful. How many gears did it take to make this?
There are 111 gears in the orrery module. Glad you liked it.
impressionnant, est-ce que vous vendez un kit complet ou les plans ? j'aimerai beaucoup avoir un model de votre création mais je n'ai pas suffisamment de compétence
There are no kit or plans. It took twelve years to build and was done as we went. It is a one of a kind that cost well over seven figures. So no there are no plans and certainly no kit. But for $2 or $3 million, you may be able to replicate it.
Hello Mark, much respect for the stellar work you have done. I have to ask, why did you choose to omit the outer 3 planets? This is absolutely beautiful nonetheless
We based the design on Mathias Hahn's original made in 1780. These were the planets known at the time. If you go to: www.my-time-machines.net/astro-06-18.htm, you will see the original and the reasoning behind our decision to use this design. Another reason is that space is limited, again if you go to the website and follow the design and build progress you will see why. Making everything smaller to fit the existing space means making all the parts smaller. In this module we begin to make wheels on the scale of a pocket watch which are the limits of Buchanan's tooling. Making parts on the scale of a watch is an entirely different realm of tooling and skill sets.
Is that also why Mars's moons are missing?
"stellar" work haha! I love it
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Isn't New Zealand missing?
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Majestic!
I thought things like these were made up in 3d cartoons. Amazing
...Slowly back away from the genius behind this.. lol mind blowing
master !!! best regards!
Very nice
Wow🤯
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