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Should be Einstein's field equations, right?
At least there is some scientific content on the new forum

Dear Grant,

thanks for your very valuable contributions to Celestia which I always appreciated.
Your decision is certainy understandable, yet it is sad news for the community.
All the best for you and thanks again

Andy

5 times 2 = 10, 40 times two = 80, 800 times 2 = 1600, 1600 times 2 = 3200... That is what I UNDERSTOOD to be the power of 2. Phil, the crucial point is that you start with a five: 5 times 2. So the result of your calculation is 5 times a power of 2: 2^n * 5. Of course all of this is basic maths :w...

Well, as I see it, the creation of add-ons has made Celestia more rich and captivating and thus there was much activity in that section over the past years. It seems natural that add-on creators like to present pictures of their especially attractive or special add-ons. Also I think it was a good id...

My personal opinion on these models is that they all look mass produced without real details and love put into it. [...] But Celestia is about a lot more than being used as a render utility for low-res scifi-models and associated pictures. [...] But taking the works of others and just mass producin...

The free stealthy version does NOT use private proxies, but public ones over which the add-on has no control. Hence during the time when stealthy is active (green icon) home banking , for example, bears considerable dangers! Oh yes, that is an important remark. Of course I'd always keep Stealthy de...

This video is unavailable Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Fridger, did you ever try the Firefox add-on named "Stealthy"? It works perfectly for me. No problem anymore with youtub...

I totally agree!

The issue has inflamed recently and members are at each other's throats. I propose we move all the monotonous Star Trek material to its own thread where it can be easily ignored by those without interest. I apologize for contributing to the inflammation earlier, but, truth be told, I don't think St...

I shall endeavor to post more non-Star Trek screenshots. :) That's a good idea, Reiko ... as long as you don't post less of your Star Trek screenshots! :blue: Why not but it's easier and faster to say that to do :!: Wait and see how time we'll see the next picture... In my country, we usualy said &...

Reiko wrote:I shall endeavor to post more non-Star Trek screenshots.

That's a good idea, Reiko ... as long as you don't post less of your Star Trek screenshots!

Even for non-professionals that are just interested in astronomy and related topics, CM is in fact an excellent source, just think about the exclusive news about what was going on at CERN related to the superfast neutrinos. And in my opinion the list which Fridger presented in his last post shows im...

Hello Eleanor!
Welcome to the third planet of the solar system.
Andy

Thanks, CC!

Very good idea indeed, I will definitely use it.

Regards

Andy

Nordlys21, it is my understanding that you should paste all files and folders into the Celestia ED main folder. The program will then be started from the Cel URL links in the word documents that belong to the different activities. But the safest way would be to follow the instructions in the guide &...

Dear Steve, welcome to the Celestia forums. Basically, all you have to do is to modify the "InitScript" start.cel according to your preferences. The file can be found in your celestia root directory. It contains also some instructions about the commands you could use. More information abou...

tellmeaboutit, I am using the very same operating system as you. With Celestia 1.6.0 I recorded a short movie and could watch it without problems both with my VLC media player and with the Windows media player 11. I used the Microsoft MPEG-4 Video codec v1. You should try again from scratch and play...

Frank,

thank you!
Your User's Guide (the former versions as well as the new one) is an absolute must-have for every Celestia user. Both comprehensive and clearly arranged -- in any case helpful.
Also appreciated by me.

Andy

Well, at least by keyboard you can always select the parent object: Just press the back-space key. E. g. when Moon is selected, after pressing back-space once, earth is selected. If you continue pressing back-space you select sun, then solar system barycenter and finally you are in the mode when no ...

Hello Everyone, I am new to the world of astronomy, but i love to know more about it. As i found this Celesta software which seems to be very interesting but i don't know how to use it. So, can anyone help me with it? Jefflawson, start with Frank Gregorio's User's Guide. You can find it in the docu...