Posts by Kim Gowney
- 18.01.2003, 00:55
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: First Celestia, then the real thing!!
- Replies: 5
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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...
- 17.01.2003, 11:21
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: Binary Systems
- Replies: 7
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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...
- 16.01.2003, 12:06
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: little program to select Stardatabase
- Replies: 10
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Re: little program to select Stardatabase
Ah, I never had in in the celestia root directory, changed that and all is well, many thanks!!
- 15.01.2003, 16:49
- Forum: Celestia Users
- Topic: little program to select Stardatabase
- Replies: 10
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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?