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I stand corrected - it does. I tried just what you suggested before making my prior post, and it didn't work before, and now it does! (I have noticed this light lag effect is a bit buggy and sometimes refuses to come on). Incidently, I was glancing over the code and noticed that the planet positions...

Whether Celestia calculates the planet positions mathmematically, or using a look-up table, there's still a possible problem. What if I'm close to Earth at time t, and looing at Jupiter. The light, and Jupiter's gravity, is from a previous time, t-40, ago. So far so good. Now in Celestia, I move (in...

Afternoon Gents, I've been using Celestia and I notice that it's possible to travel between planets and stars intantaneously - no regard to the speed of light. Fair enough - but gravity also travels only at the speed of light. This would mean that, supposing we consider two orbital bodies interactin...