long session about 3.5h
got a proper chunk of time today so I worked with it properly, I added saturn’s ringtook a while to get the tilt right, ended up rotating the area around the planet and drawing the ellipse there instead of trying to math itinline. then spent most of the time just looking at it turned the orbit speeds so mercury actually goes faster around while neptune is slower, fiddled with the starfield twinkle so it doesn’t look like static, and refreshed the page a hundred times checking the ring from different angles. also started reading up on real keplerian elements from NASA’s data that’s the next thing, getting planets off circular orbits and onto actual ellipses. no fancy UI yet, still plain black terminal vibes, but it feels alive now.