What's the cool stuff? I can't read the directions!! I'm freakin' out here!! Quick, someone gimme the coordinates of the BB! Or PX! Anything!
Seriously, what's some cool stuff `yall've been up to on Celestia?

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Copied from the Celestia forum, here are some clickable addresses of places to see in Celestia
(you need to have Celestia installed to see these)

Earthview:


Thebe:

Saturn Sunrise (track sol, sychro saturn):

Europa shadow:

And some images of my own

Wolf 359 as seen from a planet in the comfort zone- compared to the Sun as seen from Earth;



Diwali, the Hindu Robot world near Eta Cassiopeia



Ecotopia, a collection of artificial Earth-like worlds in a multiplanet rosette orbit.
The last two are add-ons for the Orion's Arm Universe-
some of which are available here-
http://www.orionsarm.com/downloads/index.html#Celestia

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Love this program, though im not really into creating planets bit. Just browsing the real stuff for now.

BTW does anyone recommend any other general astronomy freeware, being kind enough to tell us what its about?

How does one go about creating the planets? Tried editing the .ssc files and for some reason I don't see the new planets in Solar System Browser. :-k

Celestia seems to be an impressiv program. Where can I find it ?

From the Celestia homepage: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/.

I should stress that there are much more competent modelmakers than I producing add-ons for Celestia, most of which are available for download
Download Celestia here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=21302

Tutorials here
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/#2.1.2

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Thanks eburacum451, nice stuff. Love that Europa shadow!

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Just downloaded this program today, so I'm still learning my way around it, but it's super cool.

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