Posts by Damon

by Damon
18.02.2008, 08:24
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Need an Alt-Az Grid and a little more...
Replies: 1
Views: 2475

Re: Need an Alt-Az Grid and a little more...

"The" alternate azimuth system for our general vicinity in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy is based upon galactic coordinates with galactic center and Sun as two points on a line with a third point opposite galactic center or "anticenter". Earthbound folk tend to think of "up" as toward Earth'...
by Damon
10.02.2008, 07:36
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Video Capture Resolution
Replies: 5
Views: 3952

Re: Video Capture Resolution

It looks like you CPU and RAM are OK. But when I looked up you video board you only have 8MEGS. If that is true you should be having trouble with Version 1.4. I have an old ThinkPad with a PIII @1gig and 16MEGS of video. It works but just barely. The main thing I notice is High Res images will brin...
by Damon
06.02.2008, 23:06
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Video Capture Resolution
Replies: 5
Views: 3952

Re: Video Capture Resolution

Damon, Celestia creates movies with standard video resolutions, not standard computer resolutions. Celestia v1.5.0 can generate High Definition (720p & 1080p) resolutions in addition to Standard Definition NTSC and PAL/SECAM resolutions. For computer screen captures, you will need to use 3rd pa...
by Damon
06.02.2008, 06:02
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Video Capture Resolution
Replies: 5
Views: 3952

Video Capture Resolution

Have been "playing" with the available options for capturing a video in Celestia. It seems that all are very small windows within the full screen. Is there an option which allows capturing the entire screen? Is the closest to that a series of screen captures which could then be optimized/compressed ...
by Damon
03.02.2008, 22:55
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Planetary Orbit Help??
Replies: 14
Views: 7368

Re: Planetary Orbit Help??

I'm still using Celestia version 1.4.1 which has default with Pluto still a planet.
It was downgraded latter part of 2006 after the time of that version.
Wasn't aware that it'd been changed in later version(s).
Thanks for update.
by Damon
03.02.2008, 17:40
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Planetary Orbit Help??
Replies: 14
Views: 7368

Re: Planetary Orbit Help??

I still have blue orbit rings for all planets including Pluto. Someone else might help you more on that. As for Nibiru... You can change the position by changing the Mean Anomaly to 359.2 to bring Nibiru just short of the asteroid belt "under" the ecliptic on its inbound portion of orbit. IMHO, curr...
by Damon
03.02.2008, 14:39
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Planetary Orbit Help??
Replies: 14
Views: 7368

Re: Planetary Orbit Help??

Mondas, if you select Pluto as the object through the "navigation" tab, then select "goto", it will highlight Pluto's orbit. To bring Nibiru close to the Sun, you can fast forward in time by clicking the "L" key several times. Then, as Nibiru passes halfway to the Sun, it will speed up, so you'll wa...

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