primaveranz wrote:Hi,
Newbie question. I have Celestia 1.6.0 but can't seem to switch off the ISS. In Render/View Options I only have "Planets" and "Moons" selected, not "Spacecraft" but when I run it the tiny dot of the ISS can be seem orbiting the earth. How do I achieve this?
There is no option in the View/Render screen to disable all Spacecraft. I suspect you were actually looking at the section for enabling/disabling orbit lines and labels. However, if you are willing to get your hands dirty delving into Celestia's data files you can achieve what you want.
The following advice assumes you have a Windows OS and you followed the standard install procedure for Celestia.
Close Celestia.
In the "Program Files" folder you will find the main Celestia folder.
There is a sub-folder named extras-standard. In the extras-standard folder there is another folder called "iss".
What you can do is create a new folder in the Celestia folder, and call it something like "disabled". Then move the "iss" folder into the "disabled" folder.
Restart Celestia.
The ISS is gone, while all other std spacecraft are still there. To disable any of the other std spacecraft (Mir, Hubble, etc), move their respective folders into the "disabled" folder.
primaveranz wrote:<EDIT>I can also see 4 Vega (an asteroid) if I switch off "Asteroids"
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Cheers.
There is no object named "4 Vega" in the standard Celestia installation.
(There is a star named "Vega" and an asteroid named "4 Vesta")
Have you installed any additional addons?
To disable ALL standard installation asteroids, find the file asteroids.ssc in the "Celestia\data" folder.
Move it to the "disabled" folder.
To disable only "4 Vesta", rather than moving the asteroids.ssc file you need to edit it instead. Open it with any text editor...(Wordpad works fine), and make the following edit:
Change:
to something like:
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"4 Vesta:Vesta" "Sol-----disabled-----" Restart Celestia.
IMPORTANT NOTE:To re-instate these objects you will need to restore any relocated files to their original locations (so you need to remember where they originated from), and/or reverse any specific edits you've made.
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