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After a lot of head scratching as I'm not that well up on Astronomy maths, I updated the Orbital period Calculator section so it will now compute ordbit times for Satellites of planets as well as planets moving around a star. Also on this update, I removed the "months" setting from the orb...

Thanks I noticed yours after completing the first stage... Unearthed another bug with a protected cell that stopped the oblateness data being "injected". If there is enough demand I might do a "Data" reversal whereby users can save data from STCs or SSC in another spreadsheet for...

As much reworking of my original, I've expanded by original SSC builder. Using VBa Macros in Excel, there area total of four utilities on different sheets SSC builder - Creates SSC files and exports them directly I've tried to included most of the scripting keyword option but the body and orbit fram...

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Hello there folks, Been trying to work on a conversion utility that inputs data from Astrosynthesis into Celestia. However I have a bit of a problem in that Astrosythesis uses linear brightness for stars based on the sun. Therefore:- 1.0=Sol 2.0= twice as bright as Sol 4.0 = four times as bright as ...

Hello there folks, bit of strange query this but I'm trying to get to grips with understanding how the orbit and body frames work. Anyhow it is possible in the sci-fi sense to get a geostationary satellite to "track" an incoming object and point at it? I've a feeling it would involved the ...

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Worked a treat

Bit confused as to how to use the componet class. I've split a spacecraft mesh so that its in two pieces, the hull and the running lights/engines, that way I can make the latter light up with "Emmisive true" I put them in an ssc file together orbiting and rotating at the same rate and I ge...

Sorry folks discovered when I cleaned up the file I'd stuck a space in two key words phrases Its fixed now... BTW this xls works with Office 2000 and 2003 as well as Windows 98 and Windows 7 Open office does not seem to like the macro though... New fixes - I think I got the bugs out of it now!!!!!! ...

Hello there folks, Relatively new here to Celestia.. Anyhow as a Sci-fi writer artist I found it an amazing discovery....up until this point I was trying to visualise how my "universe" would look but this is so much better. Anyhow to cut a long story short I decided I needed to bang in som...