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selden wrote:
Does this answer your question?

Admirably, cheers!

Hello folks.
Does anyone have a formula or something for working out the correct rotation for a world to be tidally locked based on its distance from a star?

And please, be gentle. The mathmatical part of my brain was lost after a heavy night of excess four years ago!


Cheers

cheers guys, I'll put my thinking cap on!

I've been using the wonderful image editor Gimp to create some nice surface textures. But around the polar regions I'm getting a nasty distortion , as shown here.......... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/lazarou/infinitepossibility.jpg Can anyone help with getting the proper projection so I d...

Not sure exactly what you just said there (LOL) but if you mean the odd stretching of the asteroid texture thats because I misplaced the original Kleopatra jpg and had to make do with a Deimos instead.

Is it a bad sign when you recognise an asteroid from its shape !

Thanks guys for the help! It was that final thing that did it. I wouldn't have thought one little space could be so important! Here's the proof of all your problem solving anyway. This is a hollowed out Asteroid caught in the barycenter between Ghandi and Shiantiag Xing, aptly called "Kashmir!" http...

Well here is where it all starts to go pear shaped. This is the last habitat for Ghandi (which is fine) and the first for Shiantiag Xing (which is not fine) I can't for the life of me figure out where I've gone wrong ? :? "Koena Mitra Rock " "EPS Ind/barycenter/GHANDI" { Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ] Clas...

BTW does anyone know if there's some kind of limit to the amount of objects you can have in anyone system (apart from draining the memory) I'm putting a few space habitats and things around my two worlds yet it only seems to work with Ghandi not Shiantiag Xing :cry: here's a pic of what i mean http:...

Yep, thats me!

Great stuff this programme isn't it!

Hello , I'm messing about with fictional star systems and am using the star catalog addon provided by Pascal Hartmann but I'm sure the answer to my boggle goes for any stars.dat file for use in celestia. How do I rename stars not found in the "starnames.dat" file? I'm guessing the answer lies within...

I've decided to slam some memory in whilst i ponder the card (512 mb) to be exact. For a while it worked, Celestia was moving faster than ...erm.....a very fast thing but today it came up with this error message "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)" Now heaven forbid windows s...

A "mature" chipset....I love the euphemisms these techie folks use :) But yes it is struggling and standing in the way of my 3D plans so out with the old in with the new. I think i've found a Nvidia FX 5200 graphics card that you mentioned earlier for a very competitive price but before I click on O...

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me but;

Chip type: SiS 650 Rev 00
DAC Type: Internal
Memory Size: 32 MB (funny feels like a lot less!)
Video Memory Clock 133MHZ
Adapter String SiS Compatable VGA
Bios Information 1.01.00

Selden my god man, can you translate?

Unfortunatly, the only documentation that came with my computer was a big sheet telling me where to plug the monitor in !

Is there a way i can tell what my PC can and can't hack by looking at the hardware profiles on windows XP or just having a nose around the thing?

thanks, i'll consider my funds and investigate. Something like this shouldmn't be too hard to install should it?

I love to play about with celestia, inventing new star systems with pretty looking planets, space stations and exotic things but i find the program is too slow on my system I have a 1.8 ghz intel celeron processor 256mb DDR memory with windows Xp running on a nearly full 40gb hard drive. The graphic...

thanks for all that , I think I'll avoid all the maths though !

For example I have created a model of a gas siphoning space station to orbit a gas giant at a low altitude (marvellous view with a ringed planet!) but I want it to keep the business end of the thing pointed at the planet at all times. Also how do you find the geosynchronos orbit for any object, am I...

I hope this is the best place to ask this, I have just downloaded a few space station models and I wanted to add a nightside texture to them (portholes, navigation lights, etc) but I don't seem to be having any success. For example "Santiago Habitat" "SIG dra/Alrakis/Deigo Habitat" { Mesh "Borgspher...

Thanks for the help everyone, I'm sure I'll have more questions in the future