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@selden A quick question. I have managed to get a copy of vcpkg going set for VS2019-x64-static. Cmake still doesn't find them since I have a non standard setup, but I am used to fixing that myself. However, there packages you are using that won't compile static via vcpkg even though the tool suppor...

@John71 The fault isn't W10. As much as I would like to blame it, and its many many faults, it is not the problem here. The problem is likely a byproduct of going between platforms. render::captureframe is new, and has more features/options. I am unsure of how video capture works in linux, which is ...

Concerning video "flip" needing doing. Thought it would be something I could do with compare and contrast and a few compiles. Just got done trying to compile the current commit, and what a mess it is now. Have to install a compiler, to build another compiler, to build a library, wow, no wo...

A note on doing video recordings, speaking from experience. When I do recordings with Celestia, I use the following codec into avi. Lagarith https://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html It is lossless, and uses multiple cores. It is also open source and you can compile it yourself if you desire. Works as x8...

Just ran across this, thought other might appreciate it.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids

Enjoy.


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@ cartrite Would have done more than lurk lately, but the pandemic has kept me swamped. Whole production floors of things with minor glitches that are never off, but now are, hence only a day off every other week when I am lucky. Got a note my name had come up, so I looked. Is your vcpkg set to down...

@SevenSpheres Thank you very much. All of that information, and they fail to provide illustrations. Stuck in their own world where everyone who belongs already knows everything, so no explanation needed. Not their fault really, translating is hard. Could I impose further and ask how to determine dop...

Does anyone here know how to do a search of the Gaia data for a specific subset? In particular what I am seeking is extra solar objects with a parallax > 0.01 Or parallax > 10, depending on which way it is written out. I need position, proper motion, relative velocity, and whether it is approaching ...

Question. Could @grad_student use something like https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hipparcos/high-proper-motion to create an addon which would adjust the positions of high proper motion stars? The list above is the top twenty, but more extensive lists should be available. I realize the target period wo...

Be sure to save it in text only, ascii mode. Any extended characters and parsing will fail. Characters between 0x20 & 0x7F only, a single utf-8 character can break things. Notepad++, encoding ansi is the safest for windows. Convert to ansi if it is not already checked. All windows editors like t...

@Rockhead1959

With celestia closed, not running.
Open celestia.cfg in a text editor.
Locate the line below, about 2/3 of the way through.
You can also use ctrl-f in many programs.

RotateAcceleration

The default is 120.0, whereas I set mine at 10 or 15.


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@All,

Really, I appreciate the all the effort, truly, but the truth is I am just big boned, nothing to be done for it.


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P.S. The world has been to serious lately, everyone needs a laugh.

@Endeavor35

Have you tried wine for running windows programs on mac.
I don't use mac, but according to their website, they support it, and it is open source as well.


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@Lendonqiwi If I understand you correctly, you are asking about the use of spherical projection with a curved monitor. If so, then the spherical projection will not help you. In part this is because monitors mostly display a ribbon at the equator, whereas spherical projection includes the sky. The i...

Before the current world's mess started, which has taken over my life, not a day of in months. :hi: Love the money, need a break, getting paid to well to let myself care :> :fie: I was working on this problem as well. My first method is to start with a 250LY bubble subset of gaia. Load it and test i...

I hope someone else finds this as amusing as I do.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth


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I have a November of 2019 crawl of motherlode. (~60Gig)
Here is a listing
If anything I have is newer, just let me know.

You might also want to look at https://www.jcvignoli.com/celestia/?lang=en

It is a dual language celestia site.


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I have a crawl of the motherlode from last November(2019) (~93Gb)

Is this what you are looking for?
File was in the http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/w0rldbuilder directory.


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I find things like this interesting. One of my long term goals is create my own stand alone version of google earth on my own server. I want to play with ocean heights etc, but that is a long ways away. I do not currently have a spare server to give me all 197Million square miles of earth in real ti...

A friend sent me this link.
Though it might make a fun optional addition.

Earth with 1000m Ocean drop


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