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Animations of the Earth-Sun system This post has nothing to do with the discussion above, but it fall under the title of the thread and that is why I put it here. I have taught in the Danish secondary school for a decade and the basic, mandatory physics course includes a topic of basic astronomy. M...

Andrea, thank you for your solutions to the problems about pausing. I might use them temporarily hoping that version 1.5 will make things work better. The problem about the full-screen mode in Windows also sounds like a bug. Maybe that will be solved also in version 1.5. Is there a more formal way t...

Hello LordFerret, Perhaps I did not describe my problem clear enough. I am fully aware of the CEL scripting commands timerate and wait, and use them a lot in the script. However, I would very much like to be able to pause the script FROM THE KEYBOARD, for example when I am using the script in a teac...

A problem with the full screen mode: I am working on a script for educational purpose and I want to distribute it to students on a CD including the Celestia program etc (Celestia 1.4.1 for Windows). I have written a CEL-script and on the CD it is started with the command line --full-screen, so it ca...

Thank you Selden for a very fast answer. What I have in mind was to use Celestia to demonstrate for example the phases of the moon in education. In a split window one can have the moon as seen from the earth in one window and the orbit of the moon around the earth in the second window. It can be don...

As far as I have understood, if you want to use Celestia with a different set of .SSC files, you have to shut it down, change the .SSC files and then restart the program. Is the only solution to edit the .SSC files in the subfolder "extras" and "data" each time you want another set of .SSC files? I ...