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I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned before, but does anyone have a good method for eliminating the strange 'pinch' of mapping to a sphere? Been using some planet generators and haven't found a good projection for it. I could labor over converting sinusoidal > square, but... that's a lot of work.

This is Will in proper form...

I'm using 1.3.0... Mac, you see. Glad to hear it is more correct in 1.3.1 (I presume). I guess I'll just have to pine for it.

Is it possible to do something like flare stars?

Looks like it is a 1.3.0 issue. Updating the starnames.dat and wishing for new mac versions.

Yeah... BL Ceti is one (of several) names for the primary. And thank you very much! Hmm. Annoyingly, while the add-on does add objects, in many case it isn't adding the starnames. For example, though it does add Alula Australis (for example), I can't do a search on Luyten 726-8, or Wolf 359. I wonde...

Is UV Ceti (and BL Ceti) in the main catalog?

I could just add them, but I'd like to double check... not sure how to look in the main stars.dat.

I apologize if this has been brought up before, I'm new to the group... First, wow. Celestia is astonishingly cool... I would find it very cool if there was a way to select a visualization toggle based on proximity. Something like 'only show objects within 100 lightyears' or something similar. Among...