Just installed Celestia & cannot locate voyager..

[titanas]

i have downloaded voyager-full.zip installed in extras as the readme file implies. I run Celestia which it seems to load voyager.ssc when it starts but i cannot locate it. I go to the objects window,i write: voyager. but nothing... What am i missing?

BTW when i install a new texture how do i now its object name in celestia?

Thanks in advance!

[selden]

You should consider reading
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html
It'll help you understand how Addons should be organized and where their files should be. Then you can figure out what's wrong with the Addon.

[titanas]

Thanks selden for your help.

Has anyone else installed voyager? I placed the unzipped folder into the extras folder in celestias main according to the readme file.I cannot find the voyager though still.

In the extras i have created also a folder named Addons where i have placed the sun and it works.

Any other ideas?

[selden]

titanas,

I just now downloaded the "voyager 1&2" Addon from the Celestia Motherlode. It works fine for me.

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Remember there are two Voyager spacecraft. You must tell Celestia which one to Select. "Voyager" by itself is not enough. You have to follow the word "Voyager" by a [space] and the number. Might this be your problem?
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Personally, I found its instructions rather confusing. What I did under XP was to drag the folder named "voyager-full" from the Zip file to Celestia's extras directory.

Then I started Celestia and did a GoTo Voyager 1

Specifically, I typed these commands to Celestia:

[return]vo[tab][return]g

Where
[return] is the large "carriage-return" or "Enter" key at the right edge of the main keyboard, and
[tab] is the "Tab" key at the left edge.

The first [return] causes Celestia to prompt you with "Target name:"
vo[tab] gets expanded into "Voyager 1"
The second [return] causes Celestia to select Voyager 1
g takes you to it.

Does this procedure work for you?

[Malenfant]

I thought Voyager used to be in the official Celestia distribution? I think it should still be there, all I can find in the current data folder is Cassini, Huygens and Galileo. It's an odd omission, given how important it was.

[titanas]

Thank you man the 2nd post was much more informative. That was my problem.i wasnt using a space betwen voyager and 1.And i didnt know that the [tab] key would work the same way works for linux
I placed the file correctly so with your hints i found the spacecraft and with the help of [tab] i will be able to find anything in the future.

Thanks a lot man!!

[LordFerret]

I thought Voyager used to be in the official Celestia distribution? I think it should still be there, all I can find in the current data folder is Cassini, Huygens and Galileo. It's an odd omission, given how important it was.

The default spacecraft I have in my installed version are:

Cassini [beginning 15 Oct 1997 09:27 UT - current]
Huygens (Cassini) [beginning 15 Oct 1997 09:27 UT - ending 25 Dec 2004 02:01 UT]
Huygens (free) [beginning 25 Dec 2004 02:01 UT - ending 14 Jan 2005 09:00 UT]

Galileo [beginning 19 Oct 1989 02:47 UT - ending 21 Sep 2003 10:44 UT]

Hubble [beginning 25 Apr 1990 12:00 UT - current]

ISS [beginning 20 Nov 1998 12:00 UT - current]

MIR [beginning 20 Feb 1986 12:00 UT - ending 21 Mar 2001 06:29 UT]