Celestia Forums

Selden, Thank you for your quick and thoughtful reply. That's all I needed to know. I basically get the entire program. Love the graphics!! Fridger, While I wish I had a lot of time to peruse manuals, I have literally minutes of time in a day with a 17 hour work day most days of the week. The fact t...

Ok. I have Celestia and I can hit GO and go to planets and things. BUT, what else does this do? For example. If I go to one of the comets, I can LOOK at it? Is that all? I'd like to be able to manipulate something like a comet and set it towards a sun and see the tail. Am I thinking that this should...

Thanks for the link. I will look it over. I am glad it's Friday!

Ms. C, The symptoms you describe mean that Celestia doesn't see the Addon's files. They might still be in the wrong places. You might take a look at the Web page http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html It tries to explain which files have to go where and why. First I tried readin...

and also want something to show students so maybe they will get interested in something other than I-pods and how to sit around and do nothing professionally. ROFL ! Why does this seams familiar to me !? :twisted: It would be even funnier if it wasn't so pathetically true. I live in a place where t...

Since you're using the Windows version of Celestia, you can use the menu Navigation/ Solar System Browser after you've gone to EPS Eri. I was able to get to the Eps Eri star but cannot get to any of the B5 objects. I have extracted the file into the celestia EXTRAS folder, so the B5 folders are in ...

I am a teacher and want to use Celestia in the class. However, I can't figure out how to use the add ons. I downloaded the Babylon 5 and unzipped it into the C:\program files\celestia\\models\extras\babylon 5\ I am using Win XP... I can't figure out how to USE it. I downloaded a couple of other ones...