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I tried this a while ago.

It's fun to play with the solar system, e.g. what happens if I put another earth sized planet between Earth and Mars, or between Earth and Venus.

Sometimes we lose the moon, sometimes planets crash, sometimes nothing happens.

I turned vertical sync off for Celestia.
Result is a 190 fps @ 1920x1200

I get steady 60 fps with 4 time antialiasing.

Specs see below, I run from SSD.

Would be great if you could pull that off, t00fri!

Wow that's very nice!

This is even quite noticable when Celestia is run from a SSD harrdrive.

But developing Celestia is now low priority? Except for adding new data as it is discovered?

Too bad Celestia isn't multi-threaded..

Marco, that's why I'm using spice kernels for most moons and all planets.
This way, you get the most accurate positions possible.
Downside is that Celestia won't run as smooth as with calculated or VSOP orbits.

My parameters in the Horizons system were wrong. Here are the updated elements, for epoche 2011-06-28 EllipticalOrbit { Epoch 2455740.500000000 # A.D. 2011-Jun-28 00:00:00.000 Eccentricity 0.019157172981776 # Eccentricity Inclination 112.80279383693 # Inclination (degrees) SemiMajorAxis 56247.755167...

Here's an add-on. The elements come from the Horizons system. "Pluto IV" "Sol/Pluto" { Class "moon" Texture "asteroid.jpg" # "spectrally neutral" Mesh "asteroid.cms" Radius 17 Albedo 0.18 OrbitFrame { EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Pluto_...

John,

You may be right. My whole solar system is based on spice kernels so I don't run into those problems

Maybe someone can test this?

Can't wait to download that.

Great work, John.

Here's an addon: "Juno Orbiter" "Sol" { Class "spacecraft" Mesh "JUNO.3ds" Radius 0.012 Albedo 0.7 UniformRotation { Period 0.008333333 # 2 rpm Epoch 2455792.5 } Beginning "2011 08 05 16:27:50.663" #Launch Ending "2012 08 04 16:31:05.663" B...

If you delete the Locale folder in the Celestia folder, the program reverts back to English.

Als je de map Locale uit de Celestia map verwijdert, dan is Celestia weer standaard in het Engels.

Euhmm dat is als je dus Engels boven Nederlands prefereert
Anders zie de reactie van ajtribick

What SVN version is the 1.6.1 release internally?

how do you get your sun like that, with rays and everything? there is an add on for that BUT it turns the star into a mini solar system all by it's self adding an asteroid as the center and a few "planets" around it I've added the solar flares and that looks nice. The first movie Gremo po...

I've used the first icon in my SVN build you can download from the link in my signature.

Mine is Vega in Lyra. During summer this is one of the stars that's first visible through the naked eye after sunset.
Also because Vega has a dust disk surrounding it, makes it a very interesting object.

Great movie, how do you get your sun like that, with rays and everything?