Some of you guys are pretty adept with celestial calculation, so maybe you can tell me if there will ever be a simultaneous mercury and venus transit viewable from Earth?
Dalle.
Posts by Dalle
- 15.05.2003, 10:56
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: Venus transit.
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- 15.05.2003, 09:56
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: A preliminary Celestia User's FAQ
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Re: A preliminary Celestia User's FAQ
A7 cont.: But if your head is positioned e.g. 70 cm away from your e.g. 17" monitor, which measures 32 cm across (at least mine does), then the effective field of view looking at the Celestia sky "through" your monitor screen is 2*arctan((32/2)/70)) ~ 26 °. Hence, if you decrease the Celestia field-...
- 30.12.2002, 10:17
- Forum: Development
- Topic: Q: Galaxy models and script commands
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Q: Galaxy models and script commands
Two questions: 1) Where are the galaxy models (and the cool transparent, density like, 3D textures) or are they hard-coded into Celestia? 2) I checked the script FAQ, but can't find the commands for tracking an object and changing the FOV (I wanted to make a script following and observing a solar ec...
- 30.12.2002, 09:58
- Forum: Development
- Topic: models?
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Re: models?
Could you post the steps to export an .3ds model using Amapi 4.1.5, because I cannot get it to work. The model is exported all right, but I simply cannot get a texture to appear on it. I have tried just making a cube and applying "asteroid.jpg" to it, but it appears with just a solid color.
Hans.
Hans.