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Hi, very good idea to have Celestia involved on ESA (and NASA?) Mission websites! It would be a dream to have a first class visualization for the masses – and to have a kind of -Howto- for the maybe not so skilled user to load the needed data into Celestia. Do you think about to make use of JPL SPIC...

Hi Fridger,
thank you for your help.
i will install your location file in the extra folder.

Key shortcut planets: i think you mean type of number 1-9 and G ?

regards,
Blueriver

Hello, is it possible that Celestia can show which planets are actual visible from my latitude/longitude location on earth? Example: Is the position from Mars, Venus etc. from my location on earth (actually UTC-time) visible or is the planet perhaps just behind my (earth) horizont. PS: I read also t...

Dear Selden, thank you again for posting the .CEL improvements. Now the MRO.CEL looks like this { renderflags {set "planets"} labels {set "planets"} print {text "Let's go first to Spice_Mars.." row -3 column 1 duration 5} time { u...

Dear Selden, thank you for your answers. I have made now a complete uninstall of all (3) Cellestia versions i have had before on my pc system and i have made a new install of the 1.5.0pre3 only. ( it seems that it is tricky to have more than one version installed on the system) Result: Wow, the scri...

Dear Selden, our postings today came accross... I have to say a big thank you for your improved SSC catalog. All is working fine but i have to use the 1.5.0pre2 for running the catalog correctly. No chance to run it with 1.5.0pre3(german language) also the CEL:// URL (Spice_MRO) you gave is only wor...

Dear Selden, i can tell a provisional result: The little mro-script with the four objects is working with 1.5.0pre1 and 1.5.0pre2 but not with 1.5.0pre3 . I can not make it working on pre3 (german language) and I don`t know why it is so?€¦.i look to all settings but Celestia shows wrong spice-positi...

Dear Selden, i just install the 1.5.0pre3 again but it`s the same: no success i now download the 1.5.0pre2 . maybe the script works there . Could it be possible please, that you could post the script again (with the minor changes to radius and colours? That would be very good... I tell you tomorrow ...

Dear Selden, i like to download a U.S.. English Version 1.5.0pre3 I get my 1.5.0pre3 i use yet from here : http://www.shatters.net/~claurel/celestia/files/ >celestia-win32-1.5.0pre3.exe Is that version the correct? I have made no changes for myself on the .ssc-files in Celestia/data Here is a pictur...

Dear Selden, thank you that you have made a test on your system with the same .bsp-file. i just have made a test again- set the date correctly but my MRO SSC file won??t work on Version 1.5pre3 (german language). i only get positions far far away from mars. see this picture after i say "Goto" http:/...

Dear Selden, thank you for your help. I have made some additional changes in the script which belongs to the start / end times and now the warning message in Celestia (~Insufficient?€¦) doesn`t appear. When I now set the time in Celestia into a valid time (Beginning "2007 01 02 00:00:00" Ending "200...

Dear Selden,

thank you for your detailed answer. It is very helpful so I can go on step by step..

I run the spice-casini-150-test script you mentioned and I have looked to the details.
When i use the 050825R_SCPSE_05186_05205.bsp-file i can open it with the ?€?brief?€

Hello, thank you cartrite for your answer but i think that a separate spice .bsp-file only don`t work. It works only together with an .lbl-file connected with the .bsp content. In the meantime where i tried out the little script i don`t know how Celestia puts together different xyz-data and spice-.b...

Dear Selden,
thank you for your answer.

Perhaps there are some special ?€?Spice-doctors?€

Hello, i have now installed the latest Win 1.5pre3 and i can use the unchanged script (i posted above) for Cassini and another one for MRO but not your changed script. (could you please post a complete looking of your changed script?) MRO has no Modell in Celestia. i started without a MRO addon and ...

Hello,
@ selden: Thank you for your answer. I have needed some time to try the spice-examples you gave in your answer.

I found a posting from ?€?dh2va?€

Hello,

i like to use Celestia together with current SPICE-data (.BSP /.LBL-files)from http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif for showing up to date positions of spaceprobes.
I read some postings about spice data and using it with Celestia but can`t find a quick ?€?HowTo?€