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the earth one is particularl nice.

im on the usual Windows XP Home. Ill try DrTCP when I get my PC back tomorrow. THanks.

it could be that you are running low on hd space and windows is having to use the swapfile more and more. try running disk clean but note that disk clean doesnt get rid of all the temp files for come odd reason. you will need to look in c:\windows\temp and c:\documents and settings\{username}\local ...

hmm I used to have 512mb ram until recently and Celestia worked perfectly, I upgraded to 1gb ram two weeks ago but have not had much change to play with Celestia with is the new amount of ram. Looking forward to 1.4.0 coming out btw.

Loving the new site. Much improved.

I cant even see any rings on mine. Yet in previous versions of Celestia I could see a very feint line.

Im on 512, would I see any benefits?

i have to say, it is faster, good work

Dont forget also that every object in space bends gravity according to its mass. For example mars going around the Sun is caused by two aspects (if im right). 1. The centrifugal force making the planet orbit the Sun, 2. Gravity. Imagine a huge rubber sheet laid out and hovering about the ground by l...

It would also be useful if this updater could also check for the latest version of Celestia and download required updates.

I agree that a "general" forum is needed to discuss other things. But I dont like the idea of calling it "Moderate discussion", sounds like it would be heavily sensored or something.

How about calling it "Black Hole". It still reflects the forums theme while giving it an astronomy related title.

i turned ambient off, but theyre still there

On mine the IIS solar panels shimmer. They did that in 1.3.1 also. also i think the ring shadows on saturn are wrong. They seem way too big for me. for example: http://www.rndnet.org/other/screenshots/saturn.jpg If you type saturn in Googles image bank, youll notice how narrow the ring shadow is.

Now this is a good idea and Id like to see this implemented in a future version.

works ok here

Cant wait for it to go final. I have one suggestion Id like to see though. The option to change the temporature of a Sun or planet. K doesnt mean a great deal but celsius would.

you can still ask your question rather than wasting everyones time. Registering doesnt take that long either

Nice work so far, just a few problems I have though: Is the large ice covered version supposed to be of the great ice age? If so they're not completely acurate. Britain and indeed the North Sea were completely covered by ice. Also you havent taken into account the increased landmass due to the lower...

Since it doesnt affect the program while Im using it, Ill wait for the next release.

Im using Mandrake 10 Official with KDE 3.2 with 1.3.1 Celestia installed and no addons. Everytime I exit the program it keeps crashing. Here is the backtrace report: This backtrace appears to be of no use. This is probably because your packages are built in a way which prevents creating of proper ba...