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Hi everyone (and developers). I was wondering if Celestia could render elliptical galaxies more realistically than it does now. Currently, they are drawn similarly to irregular galaxies. But they look more like this:

(Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team)

They have a more white to golden color, and have a very smooth brightness profile that is accurately described using de Vaucouleurs' law. Any thoughts?

Dunno, need to dig through the code

SOMETHING LIKE THAT

any way to improve rendering of other galaxy types, like i want more for spiral galaxy types and known galaxy collisions

Dalibor wrote:SOMETHING LIKE THAT

Looks like this was rendered using Luke's elliptical galaxies addon.

trappistplanets wrote:any way to improve rendering of other galaxy types, like i want more for spiral galaxy types and known galaxy collisions

It would be possible, but more difficult than improving the rendering of elliptical galaxies.

everything is formed little by little
I did use Luke's but I added mine's touch

Dalibor wrote:I did use Luke's but I added mine's touch

Dalibor, these are absolutly rad, any download link so i can get them?

Correction of stars that are not on the way to the magellan cloud and galaxies images

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Dalibor wrote:Correction of stars that are not on the way to the magellan cloud and galaxies images