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How about instead of posting them all here, just put them in an ssc file and have it distributed with the final release of celestia? You should read post completely :wink: These planets will be in the 1.3.1 release of Celestia . . . Here are the planets definitions you can add to extrasolar.ssc if ...

Here is my new add-on "".

You can download it from my website :

http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/
http://astroboy-web.ibelgique.com/

Enjoy, and send me your comments.

That would be realy nice thank !!

Could you by the way try, if it's not too much work for you, make avariable a star class (like planet and moon) making a star orbit an other.
With the above bug fixed, we would be able to see binary star from earth...

Well I noticed a problem while looking at the new "HD 41004" system. When seen from a distance of ~40AU, the all planetary system disapear when the point of view approach the nearest star... I suspect that celestia can only display one stelar system at a time. Why not making more than one avariable ...

When I went to look at HD 41004, I found a K2 V with two jupiter like 'b' planets orbiting it, and no sign of an M dwarf or brown dwarf. One was 0.8 AU from the K2 dwarf, the other was 0.856 AU from the K2 dwarf. I made a file called 'new_extrasolar.ssc', copied what you wrote, and put that in my e...

Maybe a silly question but, why does the first star of the list named "HD 104985" is called "HD 41004" in celestia ?

I'm having problem with my galaxy 3D model. It look perfect in 3ds max, but when put in celetia there's polygon order of apperance problem (pic below). Those anyone even encounter such problem and how did you corrected it ? Thank in advance for your help http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/images/bod...

I think that with a little smoothing of the edges the results should be outstanding. In fact, this galaxy is a 3D model and not a flat model (like Helix), so smoothing the edge is not possible nor making them tranparent as the transparency effet isn't very beautifull. So I'll probably darkened a li...

A mirror website has been release for those who have downloading problem... unfortunately, this provider doesn't allow big files so, all the add-on aren't avariable for the moment. http://astroboy-web.ibelgique.com/ BTW here's a preview of my new "nebula" add-on for celestia, soo avariable... http:/...

I recently discovered a page called HelioWeb on the NSSDC giving Heliocentric coords for various old spacecraft.

Does it has Giotto encounter with Halley ?

You're doing a great work !! I really like to see past an present misson (with related 3d mesh).

Keep going on...

I have a few requests too : 1) Animated texture (.gif, .mpg ,or .avi). I think about animated cloud for jupiter or the earth, or the surface of the sun (in loop mode) and formation of the earth and the moon. 2) An "always face the camera mode" for 3ds model. Making nebula looking the same in every d...

Well, as I see I have to live without it !! It's not an important feature, I think that I'll survive :wink: FWIW, some months ago, Chris "threatened" that he might add some new eye-candy features that'd only be visible on the FX series. Will there be picture post with those, just to see what I miss ...

1) make sure you have "ring shadows" selected in the "Render" "View Options" menu Yes, it is. When activate I can see planet shadow on the ring. 2) Type "Control-V" several times to toggle among the "Render Path" optons to see which paths your graphics drivers support. To see shadows on the planet ...

I saw that rings can cast shadow onto the planet in selden's website, but I do not see that !! http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/iapetus-shadow.jpg http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/saturn-ringshadows.jpg Does it requier a special add-on or is it a problem with my computer ? I have Win...

Will there be a "see from this location" option placing the camera at the location point ?

Thanks everybody 8) ... BTW do not forgot to rate my add-on on my website (nobody rate any of those three new nebula :cry: ) Very nice, Astroboy. My sky looks very beautiful since you populated it. But with so many objects, I have to ask to your after sales service to buy a new graphic card for my c...

The picture I use can be found at http://www.janis.or.jp/users/kitahara/e-m97-95.jpg.html But there are many other (with other color) : http://www.cpither.freeserve.co.uk/nova_&_planetary_nebulae.htm http://www.hiddenloft.darkhorizons.org/st8eusb.htm

Not 1, not 2 but 3 new nebulas for Celestia :D "NGC 1499, The California Nebula" "M 97, The Owl Nebula" "NGC 2261, The Hubble's Variable Nebula" You can download them from my website : http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/ Enjoy, and send me your comments. http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/images/cal...

Personnaly I use Paint Shop Pro with a dds plugin (also working with Adobe Photoshop).
You can find it at http://skinners.cncseries.com/tutorials.php?d=guide. Information about how to install it can be found here http://skinners.cncseries.com/tutorials.php?d=guide2

By the way, there's a new version of the "Abell 39" nebula. Now outside of the nebula appear in front of the inside.

You can download it from my website :
http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/