Posts by SevenSpheres

by SevenSpheres
08.10.2024, 03:01
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 3324

Re: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2024

Art Blos wrote:All your comments and requests have been taken into account.

Not many new ones...

Minor planets with new names and/or numbers
  • 98943 Torifune = 2001 CC21
  • (728767) 2010 RF64
Minor planets with new satellites
by SevenSpheres
04.10.2024, 15:56
Forum: Lua-Tools
Topic: Lagrange Points for Celestia 1.6.1 - DOWNLOAD
Replies: 11
Views: 25905

Re: Lagrange Points for Celestia 1.6.1 - DOWNLOAD

The links point to old URLs for the Celestia website. I've fixed the link in my post to point to celestiaproject.space.
by SevenSpheres
17.09.2024, 15:46
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: SevenSpheres' Addons
Replies: 70
Views: 167596

Re: SevenSpheres' Addons

It looks like the original Google Drive upload of Askaniy's paleo-Earth maps (linked e.g. here ) is gone. These maps are available as an addon on mobi and in Celestia Origin, but I'll reupload the original here for archival. These have been used, for example, to depict Ordovician Earth with hypothes...
by SevenSpheres
13.08.2024, 14:05
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Green circle displayed around each object
Replies: 3
Views: 4356

Re: Green circle displayed around each object

Yes, you can disable open cluster labels in the "View Options" dialog.
by SevenSpheres
07.08.2024, 15:15
Forum: Add-on development
Topic: Coordinate format used in Celestia
Replies: 1
Views: 1905

Re: Coordinate format used in Celestia

Wikibooks wrote:LongLat [ Long Lat Alt ]
Used to define a place's position, in the object's reference frame. Long is the East longitude (in degrees), Lat its latitude, and Alt the altitude (in kilometres). Longitude is measured toward the East. West longitude can be specified as a negative value.
by SevenSpheres
01.08.2024, 22:43
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 3324

Re: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2024

With a new release, I'll post another batch of asteroid updates, including those from my previous post which apparently weren't done... Minor planets with new names and/or numbers ⋅  28911 Mishacollins = 2000 NB16 ⋅  (666739) 2010 TS191 ⋅  (666823) 2010 VR11 ⋅ ...
by SevenSpheres
11.06.2024, 19:04
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Catalogs of small bodies
Replies: 0
Views: 2223

Catalogs of small bodies

For some time now I've had a script to generate ssc files from the JPL Small-Body Database . These are similar to other catalogs of minor planets, but I can more easily update them or include specific sets of objects. I already uploaded a catalog of Atira asteroids to celestia.mobi some months ago b...
by SevenSpheres
19.05.2024, 14:42
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Star Wars Addon Thread (2023)
Replies: 26
Views: 38906

Re: Star Wars Addon Thread (2023)

Units have actually been in the codebase for over a decade, I think...
by SevenSpheres
17.05.2024, 01:01
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Multiple Star System Add-On
Replies: 6
Views: 3475

Re: Multiple Star System Add-On

Wikibooks may be helpful though it's not edited much; you can also try this old guide. Really the best way to learn how to make Celestia addons is to look at how existing ones (like this) are set up.
by SevenSpheres
24.04.2024, 00:59
Forum: Development
Topic: Classification of Martian and asteroid moons
Replies: 1
Views: 1928

Classification of Martian and asteroid moons

This topic has come up again on Discord so here's a poll on it. Celestia currently uses the "moon" class for large moons (≥200 km radius) and "minormoon" for all other moons, regardless of what they orbit. This is based on Celestia Origin & Project Echoes conventions, and was...
by SevenSpheres
16.04.2024, 15:07
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known
Replies: 538
Views: 2587375

Re: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known

There are two unconfirmed exoplanets orbiting Luyten 726-8; all are about the size of Jupiter. Even though they aren't confirmed, why not give them a try? http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000AJ....119..906S&db_key=AST&high=38e0b7728707947 They probably are disproven ...
by SevenSpheres
15.04.2024, 17:31
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2023
Replies: 35
Views: 84200

Re: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2023

Minor planets with new numbers ⋅  (666739) 2010 TS191 ⋅  (666823) 2010 VR11 ⋅  (668643) 2012 DR30 ⋅  (672457) 2014 UR116 ⋅  (673087) 2015 AJ281 = 2011 FW62 ⋅  (678191) 2017 OF69 Minor planets with new satellites ⋅  2280 Kunikov &s...
by SevenSpheres
19.02.2024, 17:11
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known
Replies: 538
Views: 2587375

Re: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known

The discovery paper does call it "the smallest microlensing planet", but that's referring to the mass ratio with its host star; there are a few microlensing planets with smaller absolute masses, like this one. I've edited the Wikipedia article to make this more clear.
by SevenSpheres
10.02.2024, 17:09
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known
Replies: 538
Views: 2587375

Re: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known

Teegarden's Star
Two temperate Earths and the nearest cold Earth
teegarden.png

It's here! Along with addons for every other confirmed planetary system within 10 parsecs.
by SevenSpheres
06.02.2024, 19:32
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known
Replies: 538
Views: 2587375

Re: Project Sisyphus - Texturing/painting every exoplanet known

Tonight on arXiv: 2 new planets around Teegarden's Star using CARMENES GTO and Legacy-Plus Awaiting for that just because all sub-10 pc planets are done! Well, it took a few months and there's only one new planet, but here it is ! I'm working on updating/re-releasing some addons in the Nearby Exopl...
by SevenSpheres
31.01.2024, 00:37
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2023
Replies: 35
Views: 84200

Re: Project "Celestia Origin", release dated July 30, 2023

I've checked Celestia Origin's entire catalog of minor planets for things that need to be updated. Minor planets with missing names and/or numbers ⋅  3708 Socus = 1974 FV1 ⋅  4035 Thestor = 1986 WD ⋅  4489 Dracius = 1988 AK ⋅  4715 Medesicaste = 1989 TS1 &sdot...
by SevenSpheres
01.01.2024, 19:25
Forum: Add-on releases
Topic: SevenSpheres' Addons
Replies: 70
Views: 167596

Re: SevenSpheres' Addons

Releasing things I made and need to release... Here's a model for Bennu I converted for Celestia in September. Source is the first, highest-resolution model here . This can be used with Askaniy's shaded or albedo Bennu texture. I could release a full addon, but there are people working on adding ast...
by SevenSpheres
20.12.2023, 16:26
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Pictures from Celestia
Replies: 984
Views: 3075619

Re: Pictures from Celestia

This is a projection for use on planetarium domes. See this thread where it was implemented.

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