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If you go to the web page: http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/collins/, you can download the following books : # "The Fundamentals of Stellar Astrophysics" # "The Viral Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics" # "Fundamentals Numerical Methods and Data Analysis" # "Foundations of Celestial Mechanics" Another web pa...

Celestia has several commands to navigate through the space : go to, center,follow,sync,lock,track and chase ( I??m talking about space navigation on keystrokes, not on a script file ). The "track" and "chase" commands are difficult for me because I??m not able to understand how they work when you w...

Celestia takes up 1.7 GB in my hard drive.
A question :
Somebody Knows how much space do all add-ons take up in hard drive ?

Sorry for not answering Guckytos, but I resolved the problem. I made this : 1. download "16K VT Moon Surface" (a) by Praesepe.Looking through it,I noyiced that there aren??t a .ssc file so I had to create it. 2. create the following folders : celestia/Extras/Moon 16K (1) celestia/Extras/Moon 16K/tex...

I??ve decided to download "16k VT Moon Surface" byPraesepe.Theorically,it??s as easy as a pie : unzip it in Celestia/Extras and you??ve done. Unfortunately,when I rightclick on the moon and chose the alternate texture, it doesn??t work.So, the problem must be the graphic card ( ATI Radeon 9200 with ...

1. download the file" Moon_clem_color_16k.zip"(a) 2.create celestia/extras/Moon clem color 16k(1) 3.with Notepad,I wrote the code (.txt file) and saved it in folder (1).It??s name is "moon clem color 15k.txt" 4.rename .txt format to .ssc format 5.create (1)/hires(2) 6.unzip (a) in (2) The file insid...

ATI Radeon 9200 with ATI Catalyst 5.4 for windows xp driver.
I check the gl_ext_texture_compression_s3tc in about Celestia and,yes, I get it.
Is the .ssc wrong ?
Is it anything missing ?

I just downloaded the Moon??s Surface Map Texture named "16k moon surface dds" by Laika and I intend to use it as a alternate surface.So,I created : Celestia/Extras/Moon clem color 16k Celestia/Extras/Moon clem color 16k/moon clem color 16k.ssc Celestia/Extras/Moon clem color 16k/Hires Celestia/Extr...