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I've been a Celestia user on and off. The first time I used this program around 2003, my computer was on Win 98, PII, 128 MB RAM. It was slow, but rarely crashed. After that it was changed to a Win XP (Currently SP2), PIV 1.7 Ghz and 256 MB RAM. IIRC, I used to play with Celestia in Full Screen mode...

I had been using celestia under Windows 98 and a slow processor. I upgraded the processor and it worked like a chum, but when I changed the OS( 98 -> 2000(for a few days) -> XP) I got(and still get) error mesages whenever I try the full screen mode. Celestia crashes and the resolution changes for a ...

celestia is also among the top five downloads at astrotips.com for quitesometine

Here's another link with related links to the scientist's homepge

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/10/5

1.While zooming out of the milky way at really high speeds, the galaxies seem to come together(ie the labels), vanish and then start flickering at random points on the screen. THe whole time my motion was linear.

2. Why are the objects sometimes distorted at high FoV?

Thanks! but those files are for 1.3.1 and I have 1.3.0. Should I have to download a huge file again or is updating a short proces?

hi,
does anyone know where i can get an add-on for the brown dwarf system around epsilon indi?

For those who may not be aware of this system there is an article on astronomy.com

http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynami ... 4aelhy.asp

Has anyone noticed this...

Go position yourself at SMC

Centre the milky way in your view

And what you would see is clearly a Barred spiral galaxy...or atleat not the spiral galaxy that astronomers picture the milky way to be.

Is there an add-on for the "real" spiral?

Hi, Why can't I see the moon(from the earth) or the earth(from the moon) in the correct sizes...they appear as dots. I could identify the normally bright planets like venus and jupiter only with their labels. How can I get a more realistic picture? All these observations were made when I positioned ...

Hi, I downloaded celestia quite a few months ago, but only seriously into it for the past few days. While traversing the universe at unimaginably high speeds, something struck me :idea: ...relativity. Instead viewing blackness at 1^10 ly/s how about viewing relativistic effect at speed near c? This ...