Posts by Kim Gowney

by Kim Gowney
18.01.2003, 00:55
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: First Celestia, then the real thing!!
Replies: 5
Views: 3438

First Celestia, then the real thing!!

Zooming into Io as per at the start up I noticed a shadow cross the moons top, intrigued I shifted the view and saw Europa Eclipse the sun, wow!, zooming out I noticed the eclipse shadow start to cross the Planet itself, it was Io's and shortly after Europas as well, (sped the time up to 100X) I che...
by Kim Gowney
17.01.2003, 11:21
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Binary Systems
Replies: 7
Views: 5086

Binary Systems

Would it be possible to improve on the representations of some of the more well known and documented binary systems? Some of even the classic systems are not accurately portrayed (Groombridge 34, Alpha Gemini etc) Obviously this is because the information is not avaialble in the Tycho or Hipparcos c...
by Kim Gowney
16.01.2003, 12:06
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: little program to select Stardatabase
Replies: 10
Views: 7311

Re: little program to select Stardatabase

Ah, I never had in in the celestia root directory, changed that and all is well, many thanks!!
by Kim Gowney
15.01.2003, 16:49
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: little program to select Stardatabase
Replies: 10
Views: 7311

Re: little program to select Stardatabase

I renamed all three Star.dat files to Star1/2/3 but when I start Celestiaload it say no star files found, it also says that if I leave 1 star file as just star.dat, I could find no references to it in the registry to alter the path, any Ideas?

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