Celestia as Replacement for Skyglobe

Nesius · Post #1by **Nesius** » 20.05.2007, 21:20

I just discovered Celestia today! I think I'm in love.
What prompted this initially was the regrettable fact that Vista won't allow Skyglobe. Is there a way in Celestia to view the stars from a specific location on Earth, as in Skyglobe, to examine the relative location of the stars from a fixed point on Earth?

Post #2by **selden** » 20.05.2007, 22:10

Yes.

See http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... ght=#21807

Darkmiss · Post #3by **Darkmiss** » 21.05.2007, 14:40

Celestia is made to be a realistic 3D recration of our Solarsystem
to be viewed from the inside, it can do what you need in a limited fasion.

But If you want a nice direct replacement for skyglobe (used to use skyglobe myself)
Try Stellarium, its a very nice realtime sky viewer.

This works in exactly the same way that Skyglobe did, but with much better graphics and UI.
Runs on all the latest operating systems. And it's totally FREE.

Stellarium homepage: http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/

A few screenshots:

Post #4by **t00fri** » 21.05.2007, 16:16

Stellarium is really nice and stable.

How about an upgrade, Paul? ;-)

(0.82)

Bye Fridger

bh · Post #5by bh » 22.05.2007, 06:39

Have to try myself... nice shots Paul.

Darkmiss · Post #6by **Darkmiss** » 23.05.2007, 10:27

t00fri wrote:Stellarium is really nice and stable.

How about an upgrade, Paul? (0.82)

Bye Fridger

Yes I have 0.82, those screenshots are linked from the Stellarium site itself, guess they need to update them.

bh · Post #7by bh » 23.05.2007, 20:21

I must say Stellarium is very impressive, and complements Celestia nicely.

Post #8by **t00fri** » 23.05.2007, 20:23

bh wrote:I must say Stellarium is very impressive, and complements Celestia nicely.

True, one day I got to take the time and find out how ACCURATE Stellarium really is (besides being beautiful)

Bye Fridger

Post #9by **chris** » 23.05.2007, 20:41

t00fri wrote:
bh wrote:I must say Stellarium is very impressive, and complements Celestia nicely.

True, one day I got to take the time and find out how ACCURATE Stellarium really is (besides being beautiful)

Bye Fridger

It should be quite accurate . . . I spoke with Johannes Gadjocik--the Stellarium developer who has done most of the work on planet and satellite ephemerides--when I was in the Netherlands last year, and his work sounded very impressive. He said that he was willing to share his code with Celestia, and I've been meaning to take him up on his offer.

--Chris

tech2000 · Post #10by **tech2000** » 23.05.2007, 21:36

chris wrote:
t00fri wrote:
bh wrote:I must say Stellarium is very impressive, and complements Celestia nicely.

True, one day I got to take the time and find out how ACCURATE Stellarium really is (besides being beautiful)

Bye Fridger

It should be quite accurate . . . I spoke with Johannes Gadjocik--the Stellarium developer who has done most of the work on planet and satellite ephemerides--when I was in the Netherlands last year, and his work sounded very impressive. He said that he was willing to share his code with Celestia, and I've been meaning to take him up on his offer.

--Chris

That sounds interesting. What part of that code is of interest to Celestia?

Bye, Anders

duds26 · Post #11by **duds26** » 03.06.2007, 15:04

Interesting
Will this mean that Stellarium and Celestia Merge into a next version of Celestia or stays Stellarium as a separate program ?

Will Stellarium take stuff from Celestia ?

What things from Stellarium that aren't in Celestia will be brought to Celestia in some time ?

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merging?