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Perhaps another way of tackling the problem would be to better define what should (realistically and artistically) be seen surrounding celestial objects like stars in a simulation like Celestia. I think it's obvious that a star's "atmosphere" is a completely different beast than a planetary atmosphe...

That is strange. I used search just now, looking for telescope, and got 247 matches. telescope AND control yielded 10 matches Maybe you did a typo? Wouldn't be the first time... :roll: I can assure you that a 2d precision ephemeris program like XEphem is just unbeatable for being connected to a GOT...

That's funny a search in the search feature of the forum wouln't come up with anything for the word telescope. But I "was" reasonably sure I'd read a similar post years ago. The thread you quoted fits the bill... Thanks...

Would still be cool!

Has anyone out there ever hooked celestia up to a Goto Scope? I've always had a bit more trouble than I thought I should to use Celestia in a planetarium sort of way, though I know a few specific keystrokes can accomplish it relatively well. It got me thinking, if there were an interface for enterin...

A Users Manual is being drafted which describes what add-ons are, what each of the file types Celestia uses are, how to edit ssc files and other file types, etc. The manual takes many things that have already been discussed by many others on the forum and private websites, and tries to place them a...

Was my question :lol: