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To Whom It May Concern: I would appreciate some assistance in deciphering some of the planetary orbital data in Celestia's solarsys.ssc file. Apparently, the program uses a slightly different set of orbital elements and conventions from those I am familiar with. Though I've consulted the introductio...

Thank you for your suggestion, Selden. Once again I am awestruck by Celestia?€™s capabilities. However, as a person who genuinely wants to help develop the program further, I would like to submit a few more ideas: (1) It?€™s still difficult to keep the horizon level, even when I?€™m in alti-azimuth ...

For its versatility in simulating breathtaking views of the cosmos, I'd rate Celestia a nine. The ONLY constraint I've encountered so far is not being able to render the sky from the surface of a planet, given a particular latitude and longitude. (I would, for instance, like to view the stars in the...