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Isn't this a little bit like the Celestial Grid -option?

3. Secondary centering mode - follow 1 planet, moon, etc. but keep the screen centered on another - i.e. watch earth spin around sun, or watch Io orbit around Jupiter from Io. If I understand you correctly, you can do this by following one object first and then selecting another and tracking it.

You can get realtime cloud maps over the net, don't remember the address (try google), but it was pretty cool. Something like this if you'd using Real Time -mode maybe?

With the Windows-version you press Alt-Enter for fullscreen or toggle it trough the menu. Don't know about other platforms though.

Ambient settings should be saved I think, but config options, no idea.

You're right, it's too far, but the closest moment will be in 29th of September, 2004, but this won't work in Celestia eihter.
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/4179 ... tatis.html
http://www.wilders.force9.co.uk/BeyondEarth/comets.htm

I don't think that's possible at all.

chris is the developer, so talk to him.

It'd be nice if you'd be able to specify your position on a planetary body using lat/long.

ALSO! Can/does Celestia sync with the current time and date, so that you can see planets/stars/etc. as they are "right now" in relation to each other?

Yes, it is after all a solar system simulator.

Try turning off vertex and pixel shaders for the slowness. At least for me it works.

You mean like a 3D-cockpit?

Oh, that picture reminds me, do the rings make a shadow on planets?

If you have them on a circular orbit and just randomly scatter them around, then that would already be nice looking (I think). Of course they don't have to be seen from too far and sowise they wouldn't slow us too much down.

I don't think it's out yet?

This has been done in the Elite-series (the second and third one). After that in many others too.

Here you go:

I have a GeForce2 MX -card and had enabled pixel and vertex shaders.

Maybe you already know this, but when looking at the Earth and zooming in alot the coulds become really strange. They become stripes and it looks strange. I'll post a picture if you need one.

I think them gas giants have a very deep (thousands of km) liquid (hydrogen etc.) surface, but the core itself is solid. The pressure near the solid core is millions of atm.

Again correct me if I'm wrong. I read something like this in a sci-magazine.

For true gravity I'd suggest an N-body solver.

But now the idea that will probably remain as only a dream: a realistic OpenGL-accelerated Elite-type game with massive multiplayer. :)

Maybe this isn't what your thinking of...

It's still optional, so why not? The ultimate solution would of course be a true mesh and a shadowmap.