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I'm sad to tell you that I just saw a blatant Celestia rip-off just now when I opened the Mac App Store. I'm sure there's some way to report this stuff to Apple, but I couldn't find out a way right now from a glance. Here's the app in question anyway: "Cosmic Crawler" . I haven't spent mon...

I agree, the multiple uses of volumetrics in Celestia could sure make it a useful feature, for the many celestial objects that are more of a gaseous type, or consist of this in a part. I am personally a programmer, I just wish I knew more about graphics programming like this.

Thank you! I should have looked around earlier, it would have saved me a few hours of sleep!

Hi! I'm using the Swedish locale of Celestia 1.5 (just in case that would matter), and was just now trying to use a solar texture add-on. However, I soon found that it never accepted my gstar.jpg add-on in the hires folder, or even in any folders in Celestia's "standard" hierarchy (i.e. not the extr...

Great work by everyone involved in this project! :D I've just quickly tried out the release and the number of new features and small touches alike is actually a bit overwhelming. It's also great that science has progressed nicely during the development of this release so that we have a much needed u...

a few years back i was building it on visual studio .net 2002 . OH BOY what fun that was . however after the first successful build ( after 2 mo.) building from cvs was easy just small edits but i decided to kick the MS habit and went to fedora Linux but windows and V.S. 2002 are still installed on...

OK, I kept having the problem and tried a game, and then I got this there too, so it was by coincidence the first time it happened was in Celestia, and it wasn't the cause. I removed my graphics card and cleaned it of dust that had collected under the fan and close to the heatsink, and now things ar...

Interesting... Got it with Celestia 1.4.1 as soon as I let it soom right in to the New Horizons spacecraft. Which is similar to what I've done earlier. Do nVidia have some sort of .DDS decoding support on the driver level, or perhaps it could somehow be about the included spacecraft model? I current...

Edit: Note I've now solved my problem myself after some more diagnosing; see third post. :) I've never used to have problems with my graphics card and it's not overclocked or anything, I play games every now and then and so on. But now I had the weirdest thing happen in Celestia. After a while of z...

Well, I don't believe in Aliens on Earth :o so I wonder what it could be then... But since it was on new year, I'm pretty sure it's related to fireworks too. It also sounds like a lot like flares even if you don't believe that. That would give them: 1) no sound 2) pretty slow speed but steadily goin...

If you read Slashdot regularly, you might've already seen this, but... NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science Yay! :D Being a big fan of Celestia and visualizing our universe, it sure is great news to hear of NASA for the first time seeing extrasolar planets. To distinguish t...

Hah, that was fun!! Reinstalling the Microsoft drivers without asking the user and knowing perfectly that almost nobody with a little sense uses them... Really, Microsoft always think the user is an idiot. It's probably just in case your former ones from nVidia could be from some older version that...

Ah, thanks for that explanation

I had heard about the magenta/violet since earlier (not just here), and it fooled me to believe light was moving into these wavelengths.

Yes, brown dwarfs will ultimately move to violet as they get cooler. I think the coldest brown dwarfs actually emit most of their light in ultraviolet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3896335.stm ESA is expected to release more details about their findings in a conference next week in Paris. The interesting thing about ammonia is that it can't exist in Mars' atmosphere for very long unless it's constantly reproduced. Scientists think only...