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There is already a precise rendering for spacecrafts.

Selden : I have Windows XP SP1 with a P4 HT 2.8 GHz and 1 Go DDR PC3200. Using ATI Catalyst 4.9. Here is the OpenGL Info from Celestia : Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Renderer: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2 Version: 1.5.4582 WinXP Release Max simultaneous textures: 8 Max texture size: 2048 Supported Exte...

I have a Radeon 9800 Pro and it works perfectly with Celestia !

ATI Drivers are no longer an issue since a lot of time now.

The best solution would be asynchronous VT loading. I'm a video game programmer and we use a lot of asynchronous loading streams because the PS2 has only 32 mo of ram. So Celestia should launch a separate thread to load VT tiles and as long as a tile isn't loaded, the old one (lower res) stay visibl...

Oups... the Guest was me ! Sorry...

If you select the object you want to look at and press the '-' key on the numeric keypad then the light travel time will be included.
Press '-' again to switch it off.

I think that for example : remember last year the Mars opposition ?
In the sky Mars wasn't a white dot but a (bright) ORANGE dot !

I can't hear anything in your midi file !!!

Superb ! I'm really waiting for this addon !

I've seen it too ! From Paris, France.

From my home with my reflector (130/900) + Canon EOS 300D + 55-200mm alone (without the reflector) + binoculars (10x50) + naked eyes !!!

wow ! That was incredible...

Hello, Until now, I was using the following script to get the latest sources of Celestia. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.celestia.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia login cvs -z3 - d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.celestia.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia co celestia But now it doesn't work anymore... (connect...

Yes ! The Universal Attraction Law of Newton :

F = G · m1 · m2 / d^2

where m1 and m2 are the mass of the 2 objects and d the distance between them.

G is the constant of gravitation which is 6.672e-11 (in Nm^2 / Kg^2)

With my GeForce 3 NVRefresh Tool was working for both DX and OGL

It's a bug in NVidia drivers... for a long time !

That's why I have an ATI now ! (not only that of course...)

Only NVidia can and have to solve the problem !

Giant stars have at least 8 solar masses (Chandrasekhar limit).

I don't know for Supergiants...

I got a Radeon 9800 Pro and everything works fine ! (And faster than with my old GeForce 3 !).

You will only loose the "NVidia Combiners" rendering pipeline...

The ETX-90 has a focal ratio of 13.8 which definitly makes it for planet observations...

If you want to watch deep space objects you should by a Telescope with a ratio between 5 and 7

In space there are no sounds !!!

Yes it's possible by adding to your "start.cel" script the following line :

set { name "FOV" value 45.0 }

Can you give me your email Christophe ?