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Excellent! Thank you. It's working fine. BTW I am using Linux - Ubuntu - and though my laptop is a 2GHZ 2GByte machine it definitely has trouble "going through" mars to get to the other side. I've speeded things up by using a shell session instead of gnome and as long as I don't go "t...

mmm ok, I did exactly what 1.1 said to do in that post. I will double check it in the morning and try again. Very odd, because the Rr does indeed work in 1.5.0 Celestia. Guess I will have a go at the more elaborate setup further down in the referenced post.

OK, so the level resolution is not controllable (per se). I can live with that. So I need to find a higher level of detail to get what I want. Thank you! I will await John's reply regarding the mapping positions. A little more info - Olympus Mons should be centered at 18.6N and -134W. In med res tha...

Hi - I'm pretty much a noobie at celestia and I'm putting together some scripts for presentations. I downloaded and installed the Mars surface maps level 0-4 by John Vliet over at the Motherlode. After a bit of wrangling, I finally have the high res selected (using the <shift><r> keystrokes). Well, ...