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So after plotting asteroids and NEOs that pop up at JPL, individually, (yes I have many many individial .ssc files I've created over the years), I decided to start plotting for stars. I noticed a limitation when plotting a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) I read about this morning, GRB 090423, the current record holder for the furthest object ever detected at 13Billion LY away.

When I have the distance set to 13000000000, I get nothing showing up but when I dial it back to 13000000, I get it to appear.

Is there any way that Celestia can go out that far, or even further yet? And if not what is the limit on how far we can go out on Celestia. I'm using 1.6.

Thanks a Billion... he he he...

((GRB090423.stc))

"GRB 090423"
{
RA 148.8878333
Dec 18.14969444
Distance 13000000 #Distance dialed back to 13 Million light-years away
#Distance 13000000000 #Yes, its 13 Billion light-years away
SpectralType "WO" #WO used as a reference from WR93B
AbsMag 5.8 #Based on GRB 080319B's peak magnitude
}

I think 10 million light years is the furthest out you can place a stellar object.