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in fact my question is: is it possible to add the possibility to manually choose the number of calculation of frames per second, in order to satisfy everybody??? those who need high fps number to watch a movement when close of it, and those who not need such high number of calculations per second t...

celestia permits you to navigate through immensity of universe and you, you tell me you prefer appreciate the movement of hubble or iss?? 8O even if you use celestia for this reason, the difference between 1 or 2 fps will not disturb your view of the iss real time movement in comparaison with 75 fps...

in 24hours the position of earth will move only 1 degre...

50 km represents a very little fraction of a pixel on your screen...
can you actually perceive the movement of earth with 75 fps? i dont think so^^
you will see no difference if the image would be calculated only 1 time in 1 sec

Please do not forget Celestia does calculate a lot of stuff, which might be out of your field of view, continuously. Like the position of objects etc... position of objects needs to be calculate how many times in one second?? do you think that these objects move so fast that their position need to ...

celestia does not slow down my pc at all. as i write above, it does not disturb any other application at all. like games, the 100% use of cpu time is not synonym of slow down, but synonym of warming. but contrary to games celestia does not need to display many frames/sec. so the 100% use of cpu is ...

yes when i switch to an other program (for example firefox) and let celestia in background execution it doesnt perturb my second application, but the cpu stays to 100%. i wonder if this is really necessary since celestia isn't visible no more. the 100% use of cpu heats it up, it is for this reason t...

hello what about an option in the menu which ask how many fps (frames/sec) we want celestia display? i dont know how many fps celestia uses actually but with less fps displayed i am sure it will take a reasonnable % of CPU time. the difference between 2 images seperated by 5 sec is not very importan...