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Hi !
my question is:
how to land on a specific place on Earth using the latest Celestia 1.3.2 pre6 in an accurate measures?
if not, is there any plans to implement that in the final release ?
Regards

WoW
thanks God someone responded, now I know we are not lost (Linux -users)

Gone with the wind ?

hi, as above, I found it since that Linux version of Celestia is up and under developement as the windows version, and since there are many Linux users or new-bees need some help in installing Celestia , and the majority has the same common problem, its installing and configuring the system to make ...

hi, very easy man: http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/download.html download the 2 rpms for mandrake, then install from packageorganizer or console: rpm -Uvh ....... and before you run celestia you need the accelerated graphics drivers for your graphics card to run Celestia !! u can then run ce...

neither of the users knew the problem !! I dont have problems with the red rectangle, it appears after clicking blindly ENTER after a very vertically thin window appears (after clicking save as) according to manual : http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/docs/userguide-1.1a.pdf Click “SAVE” Anothe...

hmm,well I managed to make a video under win2k, but after reading the manual (that u have to download it seperately of the software), the nice bug was that after choosing save movie as, then clicking on save, according to manual there should be a window telling if it is OK and to click on ok, unfotu...

I bet its an idiot question, but for some reason I cant make a single video.
is that because of my gf2 ??
if not, what are the steps ? coz celestia likes to stand still (maybe crashed) and does not proceed after choosing save video..

WOW !!
wonderful look for the moon and in the background jupiter and his sons
how to unblock it ?? I can't move or do whatever thing !

nice Calculus, hmm with Linux its very easy to find things happen before the min time range in windows
but I cant get it how do you calculate or observe those transits !!

hi, jamarsa, after waiting for over than 3 minutes for the command to finish:

hmm, ?

hehe Christophe , I feel so dumb lol

man, I will be glad to do it, I speak arabic as well
how did you know that I know polish ?? maybe from my IP logged to forums ?
well I will give it a try, but I can't promise you

thanks man
all my attempt to install celestia over linux (knoppix) was to get rid of window$ soon
keep up with the good work Celestia Community !!

hi Calculus
can u check for a phenomens that happened at 1000 AD ?
well, after I managed to install Celestia into my Linux-rig, I realized that I can put dates from 0-...~

Linux & NVIDIA & Celestia is the perfect triangle I ever seen !!

Thanks jamarsa for proposing help well its solved now
here is a link for it:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2931
please forgive me:oops: , anyway I guess that I can count on you on other similar problem ??

in case someone wants to install celestia on Knoppix or whatever debian based distribution, here is a link for the solution:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2931
done with the help of knoppix users

you are absolutely right, not only ISS, all of the spaceships that circle arround Earth seem to get sunlight throw Earth !!!
nice bug

jsaathof, can you share your knowledge with me ? I was trying to install Celestia 1.3.0 on my Knoppix machine (debian testing/unstable distribution) can specify which file you have chosen and the commands you used for compiling ? I asked for help in this forum days ago but it seems nobody here a lin...

I tried that today, and the effect is gone , I swear to God that I saw the Earth shaking and jerking !!
ohh, maybe because I was drunk at that day