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selden,

The effect is as if someone were to take a single vertex or small group of vertices from a sphere and just pull them out. I get what looks like a long narrow spike.

Occasionally it looks as if a background star is being pulled.

Hi there, We just got a new Mac Pro (Leopard, 2 2.8 ghz quad cores, 6 gb of memory, hd2600 video card) and the drivers are all updated. In Celestia I keep seeing what seems to be "tearing" when, for example, I zoom in on the Moon. It's fast and it doesn't seem to linger, but it's definitely there. I...

I think planetarium operators would welcome this development. It brings us one step closer to projecting Celestia in real time on a dome!

Thank you all for the input. Pity that Swinburne wants several thousand AUD for their version of Celestia, otherwise we'd go with them.

Chris, I like the idea for making movies and the like; unfortunately, I don't think it's practical for real-time shows, which is what we'd really like.

Hello to everyone, Our planetarium (Spitz 512, 30-ft diameter, 60-seat) is in the process of being upgraded to digital, using the mirrordome/sphemir technology. I am really impressed with Celestia, and would love to make it available to instructors so they can do tours, etc., in real time for their ...