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Hi Chris, i tested a little more. My results under XPpro SP2@Ati x1950pro: - 1.5.0pre4 and pre6 with Ati 7.12 works fine. - 1.5.0pre4 and pre6 with Ati 8.1 produce the error under OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL vertex program. Basic und Multitexture works fine! I hope, this is helpfull. Here some mor Informa...

I have the same problem. If i select scaled disk or fuzzy Points, the stars dissapear at a distance >1 Lj. I think, the Problem ist the new ATI 8.1 driver. Before there was no problem. System: ATI x1950pro @ ATI 8.1 without CCC @ WinXP SP2 By this i found, that a handfull stars (HIP 65421, HIP 93784...

That sounds fine! (...with fulltime on Celestia)

Greetings from a great, silent fan.

Hi, if someone like to play with Sol in a quadruple Starsystem, try this. It?s just for fun and to learn, how the new parameters work. I love the new version of Celestia. Great! There?s no physical correctnes, but i try to make it as real as possible. I also began with the code from Evil Dr Ganymede...

According to some brief research, I've learned the Betelgeuse (ALF Ori) is about one thousand times as massive as Sol, and Mira (OMI Cet) is about the same size, if not larger. However, Celestia does not reflect this. How can stars.dat be edited for accuracy, and what's the largest acceptable star ...

Ortolan wrote:SemiMajorAxis is the value you need to change. This is the distance from the planet to Sol, measured in AU.

I believe, your right. But it doesn?t work. I tried on jupiter, but the position won?t change.

hmmm..., not so good ?

Paul wrote:OK, who killed billybob!

uah, ha, ha, ha...
I like it

Hey Mike,

why can?t you tell us your lcation ?

Hi friends, if i played around with celestia, i got some ideas for tools: first: a stars.dat explorer/-editor i think about an external tool to edit the stars.dat more comfortable. it should have some features: - a GUI :) - the possibility to search a star by it?s assigned numbers/name - translate t...

Hi Alfred. and now i continue in German. Welche Grafikkarte benutzt Du ? Und die Treiberversion. Als erstes w?rde ich den Treiber aktuallisieren. Wenn das schon geschehen ist, ?berpr?fe die Einstellungen. Speziell die f?r OpenGL. Standardeinstellungen benutzen, wenn m?glich ! Benutzt Du evt. eine ei...

The Clickman wrote:this is normal ?

No, not realy. That?s the "shell at 8154,17 ly"-problem.
It?s not a bug, it?s a feature

There could be another problem with HD 169197. When I have some time, I will remove HD 42272 from the database, and look for other stars with strange values. It will be soon a stars database V1.1. Yeah, i think, there are some other. If i look in the starbrowser, more than 500 stars are within 11 l...

Hey, absolutly top work :!: :!: :!: That?s great, i love it and it will be my standart database for now. Waiting 15 years for GAIA to be completed will be much easier. But what?s star HD 42272 ? Nice to see, that Sol now has a companion :D We should call him "Rigel" and rename beta ori to something ...

Hi Mike,

that?s right. I see, you know what i mean.

Hi Redfish,

have you checked "Galaxies" under Viewoptions/show. By me it works normal and all are visible.

Hi xBlob,

there is a modified galaxies.dat from Paul in a previos post with 75 galaxies and 50 GC. Search for "galaxies.dat" in this forum.
A galaxiebrowser is a nice feature. I think, i heard about this and chris is eventually working on.

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know for sure, but since I don't like to see anyone sad :wink: Oh yet, Mike I find also the amount of your senseless comentarys are unambiguously too highly. Would restrict you yet on meaningful. It disturbs to read always only "Very neat!", etc. If you is boring, go yet a...

Yeah, but by then NASA will have increased the Earth's polygon count, added a new reflective vertex shaded moon, and applied lightmapped lens flares to the sun. Also, in the future we'll have a new ray-traced Jupiter to look forward to in the night sky... cool, are these features possible also for ...

I think we have to wait for 2012 when the mission "GAIA" from ESA is startet. This mission will catalog aprox. 1 billion stars with very accurate paralax and other data like spectral class and magnitude. It?s only ten years :? Up to then Hipparcos will be the best source. p.s. NASA plans also an mis...

Astrojockel wrote:

Rassilon wrote:Oops 404

try this one:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/common/src/article108

then textures.html

or simple:
http://fr.linuxfocus.org/common/src/article108/textures.html