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Hello. I've got a new toshiba notebook (1.6 GHz intel centrino, 512 MByte RAM, Win XP Professional SP2) with a nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600. For Celestia, I wanted to install the latest drivers. So I visited nvidia.com and downloaded 78.01_winxp2k_international_whql.exe. Following the installation hints f...

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dmz,

maybe you talk about ecliptical coordinates.
They are much like Right ascension and declination, but with respect to the ecliptic rather than to the equator. And they are called "longitude" and "latitude".
But don't mix them up with terrestrial coordinates.

Andy

Fridger,

if you're able to restore your mini-lecture, then could you please post it?
I think there are many people who could benefit from it ...
Thank you.
Have a nice week-end (with maybe a beer or two?).

Andy

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Fridger,

thank you very much for your helpful illustrations.


Andy

Fridger,

I really appreciate your explanation about the usage of the alpha channel in textures.
If you could spend another minute, I'd have just one more question: Is the alpha channel also used with normal maps?

Thanks
Andy

Selden,

thank you very much.
You'll always be there when some question needs an answer.

Andy

Hi everybody. I'm looking for location files, especially detailed location lists for earth. I found some files in http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celestia/files/locations/ , but nothing about earth. Searching the celestia motherlode, the links on the celestia website and also the forum I cou...

Wow, Don. You got it! After installing the drivers everything works again as usual.
Thank you very much for your great help.
Andy

Hi everybody. Recently, I ran a Windows Update and installed Service Pack 2 for Win XP Professional. After this procedure Celestia couldn't be launched anymore. Before the update everything worked properly. Now I installed the new Celestia version 1.3.2, but it also can't be launched. Is this a know...

I got it now. Thank you, maxim.
I've concentrated on the target list, what was the wrong way.

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Hi maxim and Dollard, first, thank you very much for your answers. To the second problem: If the check box isn't activated, the location names aren't displayed. But the box is activated and I can see location names as "Bangkok", "Singapore", "Tokyo" and "Berlin" on the surface of earth. When I'm fol...

Hi everybody. I'm a Celestia beginner and have read the documentation file from the Celestia website (English MS Word version). Two little problems occurred. 1. On page 16 there is a screenshot of a scene with the spacecraft Voyager 2 (figures 20-22). Klicking the link, Celestia only shows the starr...