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Greetings, I have not posted in a quite a while but I assure you I am still alive and well. That said I'm really curious as to what you guys think about NASA's current plans to land a man on the moon by 2020 or so, and whether or not those plans will actually produce any tangible results. My feeling...

Well the decision to buy the card, and to build the system came last year. I haven't had many regrets save the fact that Celestia was in large part disabled. I've had other quirky problems with certain games like The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic. I believe the KOTOR iss...

I realize I have not posted to this board in quite some time, I am however still using Celestia and with the current pause in development I'd like to ask a question if I may. Currently I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card. This means that even on Celestia 1.3....

Something has been bothering me about Mars, of late and hopefully you guys can set me straight as you have done so in the past. We all hear how Mars was -once- wet, warm and possibly for a time in the ancient past harbored the elements required for life to develop. That is all well and good and cert...

THis is an issue that has been plaguing me for a while now and you guys generally know your stuff. I've read on numerous occasions a rough time table for a "close approach" of Saturn by the Asteroid/Comet 2060 Chiron. Usually this theory is prefaced by "might" or "could possibly" so I'm not even sur...

Yes I know the Hill Radii well and in the case of the inner planet the nearby worlds 1856-B and 1856-D are well outside of its Hill Radius. However, we've all heard the stories of how Jupiter (at least in theory) prevented the formation of a planet in the Asteroid Belt, and since asteroids are well ...

Ok a Gas Dwaf is as Ganymede has said, it is a terrestrial world, with a large silicate/iron center and a few masses of H/He envelope, you might call it an overblown venus. Mine is less than half as massive as Neptune, and as I recall Neptune is often refered to as an Ice Giant or Sub-Jovian, or am ...

Ok quick science question here, i'm finally developing a new solar system, using a G4 V type star and an adjusted Bode's Law to place planets, it's not an amazing or flashy system but I've added in two intriguing planet types, a Gas Dwarf and a Waterworld. I wont go into the particulars of the entir...

Well I don't mind waiting, but what about this? what if I removed all the extraneous shaders from 1.3.2pre8 and whittled the list down to only the ones available in 1.3.1 and then loaded Celestia, might that at least be a temporary fix?

Addendum, thought I'd give a brief update here. I installed Celestia 1.3.2Pre8 and used the tilde key to check the output, no mention was made of missing shaders. I also checked the Shader loadout between 1.3.1 and 1.3.2pre8. Indeed pre8 has more shaders yet is somehow less capable. I find that wher...

Well I can not blame Chris for lack of trying, however I do play many games and the Radeon card was the best choice for me, the lack of ring shadows, haze and other effects is unfortunate, but, I'll have to make do without them I CAN use high-res textures and get alot of pretty looking stuff I had j...

Thanks for the replies, however, I did just what you said and it produced no effect, on 1.3.2pre8 I'm stuck with simple basic and multitexture rendering paths, no matter what I put in my shaders folder. 1.3.2pre6 allows me to use the Vertex shaders but haze is still broken. Haze is also broken in 1....

I've just installed the Celestia 1.3.2pre8 update, and while I'm mostly impressed with the results, I've noticed a few disturbing factors impacting the visual presentation of the program. First off I am running An Athlon 64 3000+ System with 512MB of DDR3200 RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600XT video card. ...

It is possible to extend the planet out farther, by increasing the green house effectiveness, however with Red Dwarfs your limited by their exceedingly thin and close-to-the-star CZ. Also your limited, at least by our current level of understanding by going with a planet who has a thin enough and co...

I just noticed this post and I"d like to put in my two cents as this is something I've been working with for a while now. The information regarding habitable zones on SolStation.com, while technically correct, is not a good measure of where an "earthlike" planet should be placed, let me go back to m...

As I am often creating solar systems I'm wondering if you guys use any particular rules or systems for spacing planets, Bode's Law doesn't exactlymean much outside of our own solar system and what fun is creating something new if its exactly like what we've already got? I realize you probably should...

As I understand it this will be Cassini's only enouncter with Phoebe will it not? Due to Phoebe retrograde, distant and inclined orbit, I should think this particular fly-by is very important science wise. Not only is it the start of the actual mission but its the first time we've ever seen this sma...

It is I Apollo7, this forum is flakey, apparently when I posted this thread it had already logged me out instantly after I logged in, oh well, I'll look at the web page, thanks

Apollo 7 - Go Saturn 1B!

Actually your point about day at the top of Mount Olympus is quite intriguing. If you consider the extraordinary conditions on Mars, the highly elliptical orbit and the extreme changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure with elevation. As I recall the pressure can varry between 9 millibars at t...

ahha so my mind is a little clearer now, I rather like the salmon-pink color of the Martian Sky, though I had become somewhat confused as to just what it was really like. As for the loss of CO2 I can understand that, with no replinishment possible the atmosphere would slowly dwindle away and it may ...