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Try reading the scripting guides on Wikibooks. In this case you want to write a script that goes through every galaxy in Celestia's database, and marks each galaxy that has a distance less than or equal to 10 million light-years. Also: can you not create so many threads please Actually Gurren made t...

Both of you stop this now , before it escalates into an argument. Trappist, Gurren is correct that you shouldn't make addons just to get them in CO. Posting links to all your addons in the CO thread isn't a serious offense, but it is annoying. Just post addons in their own threads; the CO devs will ...

trappistplanets wrote:so how do i make it so it [doesn't] happen when i install 1.7.0
and is it safe to have 2 functioning celestia installs?

Yes, I have more than two Celestia installs and have never had any issues like what you described.

trappistplanets wrote:but why did reinstalling 1.6.1 to fix my issue mess up my backups [which] i put on my desktop
(i had my celestia installed in my documents, not the desktop [which was] where my backup files were)

I don't know. That certainly shouldn't happen.

how do i back up my files so i can add them to 1.7 because during the time my 1.6.1 broke and i had to reinstall it and i backed up my files those got messed up, like it replaced my textures with the junky default ones, and deleted lots of my addons in the backup files Just put 1.7 in a different f...

trappistplanets wrote:and how do i do that without breaking celestia or any of my modified files like addons, textures and other stuff

I don't recommend doing it at all. It's much easier to set up Celestia 1.7, as described in the thread I linked.

why does the [damn] render [limit] even exist There are technical reasons for this, which have been described elsewhere on the forum. why is celestia the only space sim that has a render limit? I doubt that's the case. anyway to remove the render limit all together so i can render a star system out...

Is there any way i can get 1.6.1 to render things as far out as M87 or farther ? if so, what do i edit/modify in the files to force celestia to render stars and planets that far out on 1.6.1? You would have to modify the source code and recompile Celestia. is there a 1.7.0 setup install for windows...

trappistplanets wrote:is the render [limit] here bigger [than] 1.6.1?

The star render limit for all 1.6.x versions is the same - 10 million light-years.

trappistplanets wrote:what is the twitter even for?

Increasing visibility of Celestia content.

ssamsamm, Celestia 1.7 is still in beta, which is why there's no download link on the website. You can find installation instructions here.

Celestia has a new Twitter account, created by TTarrants/Sirius_Alpha: https://twitter.com/Celestia3DSim

This replaces the old inactive Twitter https://twitter.com/CelestiaProject

Check that your Celestia/data folder contains the files nearstars.stc and solarsys.ssc , which define Sol and Earth. Also check that the files celestia.cfg and start.cel exist in your main Celestia folder. (These files are in CelestiaResources on Mac, and the start script may be somewhere else on no...

hello? (just trying to keep this thread in the active topics so ilikesaturn and jvv sees it still) Please don't make content-less posts just to bump your thread to the top of the active topics list. This also goes for your recent posts asking if you're being "ecnored" (also, the correct s...

I need position, proper motion, relative velocity, and whether it is approaching or receding. Could I impose further and ask how to determine doppler from from all that. Position is in the ra and dec columns. These are right ascension and declination, in degrees. Proper motion is in the pmra and pm...

If you're using the Gaia Archive, you can (in the Search -> Basic tab) click "Extra conditions", then "Add condition" (circled). You can then enter the condition you want (in this case, parallax >= 10), as shown in the screenshot.

trappistplanets , at one point JVV deleted almost all of his old posts, leaving threads like this. Please don't comment on these threads, it's necroposting. In this case the thread is saved in the Wayback Machine ; you can look for other threads there, just replace celestia.space in the URL with sh...

Update to GCIRS 16SW, a contact binary star at the Galactic Center. The mesh was created using ajtribick's recent Python script, which can be found here. This addon requires Vision's Galactic Center addon, since the star is defined to orbit Sagittarius A*.

Note: the old version of this addon (from over a decade ago!) is archived here. The old addon thread is here.