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I just got round to plugging these new nebulas in
and they look great, thank you jestr.

good work on the models too.

Well I got it.... and its good.....

I got the Meade ETX90AT with a 2x Barlow lens.

Space-Graphics.com has put up two new 16k jpg's for download one is of Mars and the other is the Earth. The Mars texture is simular to the re-colouring that Preasepe did with the older version. on to the links Earth :arrow: http://www.space-graphics.com/e43.htm http://www.space-graphics.com/images/e...

Well after a shuffle of my finances, and a small loan on top. I can now get the Meade ETX 90 AT http://www.meade.com/catalog/etx/etx_mak.html Ill be taking a trip to Telescope house in central London tomorrow morning. and im getting very excited about it too :D this will be my first real Telescope. ...

well after more investigations and a check on the funds Ill not be able to get the Meade ETX 90AT as it is just too expensive for me. Instead i will be getting the Meade ETX 70, which by what i read is a great first telescope, for a good few years, then maybe ill upgrade later. This will cost me ?29...

Ahhh! damit, can use it if you are outside the US

but great find Don looks like a great site

I got as far as the reply e-mail by submitting false US details (no choice )
but they want me to suply a US phone number to be contacted withing 15 minuets.

Thank you all. This is the kind of info i was looking for The " been there, done that " type of info. :) I will be doing a search and review of the Celestron GT114, soon And thanks Selden i did look into the courses and astronomy groups. but there isnt any in my area at all. And travel around london...

Hello all I have a few questions for telescope users, if you will. i have been lokking at a few telescopes to buy but never having used one, (apart froma a cheap tiny thing as a child) Im not really sure what im looking for. I have found one i like the look of here :arrow: http://hardinoptical.com/m...

Hello Cham
Yes as far as i know this file is real
I am not the author, just put it on my site because the original source disappeared.

I have also been looking for the inner asteroid belt ssc file too
but can't find a good one yet.

Hello Pluck Firstly move the mars cloud texture you have downloaded, into the medres folder of Celestia Then add these lines to the bottom of the atmosphere section of mars in the solarsys.ssc Atmosphere { Height 30 Lower [ 0.8 0.6 0.6 ] Upper [ 0.7 0.3 0.3 ] Sky [ 0.83 0.75 0.65 ] Sunset [ 0.7...

Thank you Selden, that does indeed help

it tels me that ill never be able to afford my dream telescope

Hell, i need to got out of this light polluted London, before i even think about it yet.

That Kstars looks like a nice program

But i take it you have to put it together yourself
as i couldn't make head nor tails of the downloaded zip file.

I nothing of compiling or whatever it takes to make these files runnable.

is there anywhere to download it all put together

Very sorry to hear of your troubles Don and a great big thank you to Frank for being able to help out our great friend. I'm a little worried now too As I have a Creative Blaster GF4 Ti4600 128, that is only just a year old Im hopeing it lasts quite a bit longer. But i will be looking to upgrade it s...

Hello Guest

To use an XYZ file

1: place the ???.XYZ file in to your DATA folder of Celestia
2: add the ???.XYZ info into the ssc file of the model you are using

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Wow, hello again Calculus , long time no post. great to see you back, i really miss your Phenomenon posts. I also have a telescope question: Is there such a thing as a home user, afordable telescope. that will track objects (motorised) and is viewable via your PC im not talking about hooking up some...

Wow it would take ages, modeling that many pieces.

Hello Daryl Great looking texture map I do have one question though? the previouse 16k textture map of the moon did have some nasty stripes down the middle. does this one have the same, or have they been removed ? Also in answer to your hosting question Jack Higgins has a great post about this right...

Luca do have the ability to resize the ring texture whilst keepin the transparency, to get it to work on your voodoo card. If not, just say and ill resize and post it to you 8) But in all honesty, if a video card upgrade was ever on your mind then do that, it will make Celestia look even more amazi...

RIP Beagle 2, I really do not think there is much hope for you now

Hello Daniel Do you have this as the second line in your code ? Class "comet" Should look somthing like this "81P Wild 2" "Sol" { Class "comet" Mesh "comet.cms" Texture "comet.dds" Radius 2.0 EllipticalOrbit { Period 6.4034958 Per...