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I quickly tested Celestia 1.2.2 for Android on my Pixel 4 XL with a Bluetooth keyboard. The keyboard seems to work as expected, in particular Ctrl+G and Ctrl+F.

I updated to version 1.2 on Chrome OS and now the mouse wheel zooms and works correctly.

I have a Bluetooth keyboard, I'll try it with my Android phone.

As for switching to alt-azimuth mode on Android, the only thing that comes to mind is another context or info menu item, with dragging gestures to view around.

I got the latest Beta and it works great, thanks! On Android, once landed on an object I can't figure how to switch to alt-azimuth mode. Dragging and pinching doesn't apparently change the view. On Chrome OS, right-clicking brings up the context menu and Ctrl commands such as Ctrl + G and Ctrl + F w...

I joined the Beta on my Android phone.

I can't sideload APKs on Chrome OS without switching to developer mode, which reduces security. But it's not necessary as the Play Store let me join the Beta also from Chrome OS.

Thanks.

Sure, how can I get the Android Beta? Do I just sideload the APK?

Thanks Markerz, much appreciated. The information menu is handy and has all the other actions I need. To clarify why I'm trying to land on a body, I'd like to see what the sky and astronomical phenomena look like from the surface of the body. For example, seeing Phobos rise from the western horizon ...

Thanks Anthony_B_Russo10, I'm able to land on the surface by zooming in. But, once there, on my Android phone I can't figure the gestures or actions to tilt the view and look at the sky as if standing on the surface, instead of looking down as if falling to the surface. However, on the Chromebox I c...

How can I go to the surface of a body with the mobile version of Celestia on Android and Chrome OS? I use the Android app on both a Pixel 4 XL phone and a Chromebox with Chrome OS. On the phone, I can't find the goto surface command or gesture. It apparently isn't in any of the menus or settings scr...

As a temporary solution to the inability of compiling Celestia 1.4.1 on my Slackware Linux 10.0 system, I have installed 1.4.0 with KDE support. It mostly works, but performance on my nVidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra with 256 M of RAM is worse than Celestia 1.3.2 with GTK on the same system. I configure...

adamod wrote:Is the apollo11fr.xyz file in your extras\data\ directory [...] ?

That was the problem: apollo11fr.xyz was not in the data directory. Very nice add-on, thanks.


Paolo Amoroso

selden wrote:Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1886 map of Mars is now available for use in Celestia.

From someone who does public outreach and educationsl activities with the instrument used by Schiaparelli for doing that map: cool


Paolo Amoroso

Does this add-on require a specific version of Celestia? I have unpacked your ZIP archive in the extras directory of my Celestia 1.3.2 installation under Linux. When I run the apollo11fr.cel script, I don't see neither the spacecraft, nor the Moon or Earth while the script proceedes and displays its...

I am utterly confused, in CEL scripting, on how to disable tracking on a selected object without losing the selection. The Celestia CEL Scripting Guide says the following about track{} : If the currently selected object has track enabled, as of Celestia version 1.3.1 you can use the following code t...

Does this help? It does. I have found Grant Hutchison's definitions of nearby stellar systems for Celestia 1.3.1 or later , which includes several double stars specified as planets as you suggest. The great thing about Celestia is that even if you don't have the bleeding edge, it provides so many e...

If I'm reading the Web page right, Celestia v1.4.1 is available for Slackware 10.2 at http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=9366 This package requires versions of the KDE libraries later than the ones I have on Slackware 10.0. Recent Celestia versions have obscure issues on my Slackware 1...

How do I define a binary or multiple star system with Celestia 1.3.2? I seem to understand that the OrbitBarycenter keyword and related functionality in STC files is available only for Celestia 1.4.x or later. Any sample STC files that I can study? I ask for a Celestia 1.3.2 solution because I am cu...

A GTK-based Celestia 1.4.1 binary package for Linux created with Autopackage is available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21302&package_id=173862&release_id=394226 . Does it link GTK statically or dynamically? What version of GTK is required for running this Celestia b...

I am trying to build Celestia 1.4.1 from source under Slackware Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.2.3. I configure it with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/celestia --with-kde --with-lua=/usr/local/lua Configuration works fine, but compilation aborts with this error: [...] celsplashscreen.cpp: In member functio...

a vt dose not nead to be done as an alt surface it sounds as the entry in the solsys.ssc is a bit wrong take anouther look at it or post it and maby we can figure out what is wrong I did not change the solsys.ssc file that comes with celestia 1.4.0. I instead created one called extras/Addons/earth-...