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Don, I am probably too late, but I have succesfully recovered deleted files before using R-Studio:

http://www.r-tt.com/

Making a scaled down system in Celestia isn't so strange, and already has been done. Ahh, I though it would be against the ethos of celestia which seems to strive for accuracy, but I suppose it makes perfect sense as an addon. Found the orrery addon at the celestia motherlode: http://www.celestiamo...

Thanks both for the replies, just reading through it all more is a lot of help - I've started to realise how little I know about astronomical terminology! I've actually gotten something up and running with libnova which is very good, but now that I know what I'm looking for, I think the celestia bod...

Apologies if this is the wrong section to post in, but I thought people working on Celestia development would be the most qualified to answer my question :) I'm working on a semi-educational game written in C++, which includes a solar system (Sun, planets, moons, and a few minor objects like comets)...