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Excellent!
but please note : the correct names are "Antoniadi" (without the ending "l") and "Schiaparelli" (with "a" instead of "e") !!

Ciao!
Pierluigi

@jogad
please follow the link at the end of Alexell's post (Celestia in Russia) !!

Of course the whole site is written in Russian language, but it's not difficult to find what you want!!

Hi Celestians! I use and always have used Celestia as a scientific tool, just to make snapshots of situations, that I often consider as reality instead of a simulation!! 8) I never needed cockpits that could have broken this illusion ... IMHO Celestia is great for the fact that can be adapted to our...

Goofy,
remember that in real spaceflight there is no need that a spaceship "points" directly to the target!!!
think about monster spaceships in SF movies...
even the famous Enterprise, after receiving the boost from the propellers, can turn 180° without modifying its trajectory!!

hi Celestians! I found a strange and perhaps excessive value for the diameter of the star HIP 102276 / HD 197572 / SAO 70423 (aka X Cyg) : 3498000000 km, 5000 times the Rsun. 8O Don't you think it's wrong? :( HIP 102276 would be the largest star in the known universe, well beyond VY Canis Majoris......

thanks a lot,Chuft-Captain! it's very useful!! Ciao Pierluigi PS I have added - the filetype "ctx" (used for VTs) to ext - the keyword "VirtualTexture" to Words1 - the keywords "ImageDirectory BaseSplit TileSize TileType" to Words3 this way also ctx files have syntax co...

Hi Celestians! I was reading posts in an astronomical group in Facebook and I found an ad about a 3D astronomical program, called 3D Astronomer. This is the link to their site: http://vistasatelital.net/3dastronomer/ The images are small, but you can guess the contents of the strings around the prog...

Hi Celestians! I installed Windows 8 on a partition of my Samsung netbook. 30 seconds and my PC is on! :D Then I installed Celestia 1.6.1 from scratch but obviously it lacks a decent OpenGL driver: :( and when I press Ctrl-V nothing appears! 8O this is what "OpenGL Info" reports ----------...

Hi friends!
What do you think about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJv4HnFIqI

Thanks a lot John!
Good job!
I'll download it immediately!!!
Pierluigi

Added... Not too much immediately!! After 45 seconds!!!

At the and of the post there is the following message:
"Image products created in Celestia. Mimas and Tethys basemaps by Steve Albers. All dates in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)."

Hi Dub I found quite the same problem yesterday in my notebook, after installation of a graphic program. The error message is really ugly: after a lot of googling I found that the culprits are some missing dll files from (in my case) "VC++ 2008 redistributable package" . I had to look at S...

Hi celestians!
John, do you think it's possible to have also in Windows these features of KDE?
I use an italian keyboard, so I can't execute some commands.
Thanks a lot!
Ciao
Pierluigi

Hi Celestians!
I can confirm that I found this bug only in a compiled SVN version, NOT the official 1.6.0 version!
Perhaps there's something wrong in the new code in the SVN...
Ciao
Pierluigi

Hi friends!
The formulas ARE exactly the same!!
Ciao

Hi friends!
http://yfrog.com/0tgalileopj
Here is a snapshot of the passage of galileo spacecraft inside Jupiter!!
Celestia 1.6.0

Ciao
Pierluigi

so, Fridger, what is "your" list of options, as discussed among you developers?
I don't want to change your choices, obviously!!
All I want is to be consistent with the current version of Celestia in order to build the same executable!!!
Thanks
Pierluigi

I'm again here! :roll: right clicking the solution file, in "properties/C++/Command Line" I suppose there is the complete list of optimizations and compile switches!! My list is the following (obtained with cut and paste) --------------------------------------------------------------------...

hi friends! the solution file has not all the optimization that Guillermo indicated. I had to add manually /Ot /Oy /GT and /GL from "properties/C++/optimization" The configuration is always "Release". After a rebuild, "my" celestia.exe is 2 819 584 byte, while Guillermo...

...forgot to say that 25 years are "working" years... I started programming on the unforgettable TI-59 (Texas Instruments), with a eclipse prediction program (thanks to Meeus!). If I remember well it was in 1977... :wink: But I started my passion for Astronomy just 40 years ago, the day af...