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... While working on an (as yet incomplete) Addon, I came up with one way to remove stars from a Nebula picture. .... Very good for monochromatic nebulas :-D I never thinked about filling gaps with a blurred layer ;-) I'll try it on my ngc 7000 original image, to compare it with the released one. T...

I think this new feature could help and seems very easy to add:

I'd like, with maximum verbosity, to see the coordinates of the selected objects (stars and dso), on the right upper corner of the screen, just following type, temp, magnitude, etc.

oh sad, too many bad news!!!! How many clouds in europe today!!!!! :( I have been more lucky, like in Germany here a sunny june day with a clear blue sky, with just a refreshing breeze. My best (very amatorial) photos are online at my homepage. If you want to see them, just make a click at the WWW i...

OFF TOPIC:
I added on my website some photos of the Venus transit of june 8th.

If anyone is interested, I'm also updating it at least twice a week.

So long.

M45, of course, hasn't color reduced, and Veil nebula is too slim to be "a rock in the eye". Veil looks a bit blocky - but that might be due to the original photograph. Do you think their visual impact are correct in Celestia? Difficult to answer without a telescope view comparision. They don't loo...

I'm joining too!!!

Brendan wrote:I'll try getting up early in the morning. From where I am, the transit will be happening when the sun rises. I'll use a projection screen with my telescope to see an image of the sun.

Brendan

Hope in a sunny day. I'll make some shots on a A4 projection screen. See you tomorrow.

'night

I LIKE your addons! It's a hard bit of work to get those DSCs cleaned from all the (unneccesary) stars, and most other addons available are only rectangular pics of some telescope photographs. I'm going to see forward for more of them :) One small critics only: Some of your work seems to look color...

I updated my site with a disclaimer, more info, and some instructions for using my and other description files. I'd like you check it and report faults or other problems, especially for credits (my ever present thought) or if more infos are needed. Have someone had a look on these "infamous" files, ...

Hello Duck and thank your for making these new add-ons. I will include them in the next revision of my catalog. If I might make a small request, could you post more info about the changes to add-ons you have modified from other peoples staring work? it is always nice to keep track of what has chang...

I'm happy you like it :D . You don't need a .stc file, just the .dsc in the archive. You have extract the files and copy the whole thing in your extras directory. Of course I don't know if older version of Celestia are suitable for it. I mean, for example: -\extras\ngc7000\ngc7000.dsc -\extras\ngc70...

NGC 6992, (east) Veil nebula
Like above, it needed an hard cleaning. No stars on texture, here

NGC 7000, North America nebula, faint version .....I use a faint version of it, in everyday usage. I use the brightest one only for screenshots. Use whatever you want. Try to download both :-D Note: like above, all the stars you see here are true stars, not texturized ones. Sure, you need the big 50...

NGC 7000, North America nebula, bright version When I was 8 or 9 years old, a family friend gave me as a present a 300+ pages book covering all the astronomy matters, from parallax to HR diagrams, from planetes to Keplerian laws. It has been a big crush for me, well written (an italian Mondadori edi...

My first work is a model that shows the bright nebulas around Alcyone, Maia, Electra and Merope. As the four stars are at slightly different distances from us, the four nebulas are also on four planes: at 359, 360, 367 and 370 ly. The model required a lot of time, many lost in errors. Please note: a...

If you have some time to spend, have a look at my new Celestia website.
http://digilander.libero.it/paulduck/celestia/index.htm
I host my works in the download section.
Have fun with Celestia
Following screenshots...

I'm not skilled but this is mine. Are that "true" multiple star systems are a bit too far for our PCs? Even if a skilled coder solve the problem (about orbits over multiple masses). Isn't it too much for actual cpus? I say. My celestia is very slow at startup, loading the huge 2.1c 2million stars da...

I red through the forum about binary star problems. As this, I think that the "planet-binary stars" are a good temporary solution. I also think that the major lack at the moment are variable stars, even at a early stage. Eclipse variabiles, as Algol or Sheliak class binaries, are related to the firs...