Celestia Forums

I'm sorry, but there are still several things that Starry Night does that Celestia just can't do or is a pain to do. For one thing, you can't print directly from Celestia...sure you can take a screen shot and then open another program, then try to reverse out the colors so stars are black and the sk...

I use both Starry Night and Celestia. Starry Night is much more a planitarium program and Celestia is more of a Solar System explorer. For instance, on Starry Night I can input my exact Long and Lat cords of my hometown and get a chart of the night sky for any time...plus I can see looking North, So...

All I want to know is where are you getting a 4Ghz Pentium 4? Also, had the 5900/256 for 1 week before switching to the ATI 9800 pro/256. To each their own I guess. I just like the "look and feel" of ATI's mipmaps. It's hard to explain, but speedwise I don't see any difference and the 5900 was about...

Oh I understand that I won't see star blinking, dirt etc etc...I was just looking for something simular to Starry Night...they have a calculator where you can input the stats for your scope and it will give you a resonable FOV of what a scope would "see". That's all. Just something to fool around wi...

I was wondering, how I would go about using Celestia as a telescope simulator. I'm currently in the market for a new scope. These are rather expensive and although I belong to a nice Astronomy club, I'd just like to fool around with Celestia to see what I would be seeing...give or take...with differ...