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Hello cartrite. after going back to my club's site to get the info ,I see you beat me to the punch.But i'm still not sure about how to go about simulating this event in celestia.I think I know how to goto the coordinates of my observing location and "look back" to get a sky view,and I know how to lo...

Here are the particulars(from website waa.org): "The best asteroidal occultation ever predicted for the northeastern USA, and potentially the best in the USA since 1983, will occur Friday Morning, May 5, when 5.8-magnitude 16 Piscium is occulted by asteroid (7) Iris. . The occultation will occur wit...

I am a member of the Westchester Amateur Astronomers,a club located in New York state,USA(~41N 73W)..Our website has informed us of an asteroidal occultation, of the star 16 Piscium by the asteroid Iris that should be viewable in our area.This brought to mind a question:how might I use Celestia to s...

Ive been all over the place (on the web),trying to find out a good way to depict the stars of a constellation as they truly lie in three-dimensional space,not just the line of sight formation that we recognise .For the most part I'm drawing blanks.I found something called "virtual orion"which seemed...

I've viewed this thread with interest because its something I've played with as well.Using the elements provided by jromer I get a display of a close approach(~85k kilometers) on 4/14/29.However I have two questions:what is the best way to show the earth(moon too?)and the asteroid in the same frame?...

Anybody else interested in this project?A joint venture of the Planetary Society and a commercial firm to launch the first experimental solar sail.Having played around a bit witrh celestia,and reading the posts in these forums,it occurred to me that I could learn a great deal more if I tackle a proj...

Thanks everyone for the help.The suggestion that worked for me was to place a # in front of the first line for each object in the asteroids.ssc.Since in my case ,there weren't that many objects(only the ones from the basic celestia download)this wasn't too tough.I can see how it might be cumbersome ...

Hi.I'm new to this forum and to celestia in general,so i don't kmow if this is the aqppropriate area to post my question .but here goes.I've read a number of threads and followed a number of googled links but havent found an answer to what seems to me a simple question.How do I zero in on the orbit ...