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Random Minor Bodies... I'm remembering the debates about Pluto, and the "Minor planets" status. There are tons of these bodies in the Kuiper Belt. (Many years ago, I signed, with many, many people, on the "New Horizons" cd, that the probe carry in this aera, just now. This was my...

Celestia forums must be online. Celestia must be on life. This is my thoughs with this formidable prog. Many Thanks Chris & all. And as usual : sorry for my English!
Jeam

Nice to see again CELESTIA on board. Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Celestia. Its mission: to explore our strange worlds in the sky, to virtuality go where no simply man has gone before. Message to Chris : Do not abandon this superb device. Message to all of you : v...

A sleek spacecraft first seen in the movie "Der Schweigende Stern" (1960) (also known as "The First Spacecraft on Venus" in the U.S.) This adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel is also known with these titles: L'?©toile du silence, Milcz?…ca gwiazda ,Silent Star , Planet of the Dead or Spaceship Ve...

It has nothing to do with any conspiracy and a lot to do with the cost of production. Hi Selden, I don't know if this doc have be translated -and diffused- in English, but there was an extraordinary docu(mentary) Fiction by William Karel, called "Op?©ration Lune" in French (2002), that explains the...

I"m talking about the book that was written in 1933 by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, so yeah, probably. Hello, as i have some difficulties to read in English, I have not read the sequel (this one wasn't translated in French ), is it as so interesting that the first book? BTW, the Rudolph Mat?© 195...

Fightspit wrote:I see a building which is written "Berlin ..." and something after but what the building is

You see the clouds in the background? This is the Earth. And the 'building' is a deutsch modul for the ISS, with his panels jEAM

Jeam Tag wrote: And it seems to me the jets don't touch the star -beginning is obscure (?§a se dit?)

Well, the screenshot by chuft-captain answered my question. All works fine for me, so. Thx. Jeam

Fightspit wrote:At this time, 2 votes for "It' simple" and other 2 votes for "It' simple".
A lot of tension in this election

"It' simple' is wining! Jeam

The addon is finished (can you confirm ?). Install into you Extras folder, type PSR J0737-3039 AB in Celestia, then go ! Feedback would be appreciated. Seems it works well for me. So, as his coordonates are more accurate than the animation, we can't see the jets of the two neutron stars in the same...

I wasn??t aware of this discussion... But here??s my two cents... To say it bluntly, scifi in the official package is a PR disaster. - rthorvald As you know, Science-Fiction is my passion, but I totally agree with You Runar ! The choice will be always not so easy, what spacecrafts are the most impo...

Which spacecraft do we think need to be included? I mentioned a few obvious ones: Cassini, Galileo, Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneers 10 and 11. What else? Apollo 11 might be neat if we could get trajectories for it.--Chris Hello Chris, maybe must we search first for the historical ones, Sputnik 1, 2, Vost...

Hello,
some news about the SMART-1 probe. As said :

If you are a professional or amateur astronomer and want to contribute to the final phase of the SMART-1 mission, join ESA on the impact ground observation compaign.

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=98
Jeam

For example it is possible to dock and undock to one of ISS's docking ports using this script. I was wondering what the forum thought of this idea? ... Hello, not a real dockable function as the spaceflight sim "Orbiter" does, but a quite nice approximation is tested with the work-in-progress addon...

No textures, as this may be part of the official distribution. I've just added the NASA logo and rotated the panels. Yes it must be a light model, alas... Do you have a look on the nice pictures frank Gregorio proposed in the addons forum? http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/fsgregs/spacecra...

Chris, I only know two models of the HST : the official version and Jestr's one. I'll try to do one myself. I had noticed another crude one (Paolo Angeli) and 3 hight detailled ones, the bigger and nicer by Jestr, yes. http://jeam.tag.free.fr/CELESTIAhtml/CelestiaAddons-Spacecrafts-Satellites2.htm ...

Your connection is theoretically ~ 18 times faster than mine and that obviously makes a positive difference. Yes, but theorical: depending of the pipes -some problems some hours- and the number of other up/downloads running on the same connection at home. What sort of resolution were you able to vi...

Just out of interest, how much faster is your connection than 56K? (It sounds like you got quite a good performance at a peak time.) Did you have consistently smooth video and sound, or did you have occasional pauses?CC Hi, as usual, sorry for my poor English (understanding and writing) :-( I try t...

chris wrote:Another screenshot, this time using Don Edwards's 4k cloud texture

Very impressive, Chris! What a great feature. Jeam

I've been trying to watch the live shuttle broadcasts on NASA TV ( http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ) for the last week without any success. Hello, not a real answer, sorry, (because of a little faster connexion), but some comments about what I saw : 1/ You must try to connect a lon...