IS THERE A MANUAL FOR CELESTIA?
IS THERE A MANUAL FOR CELESTIA?
I was searching the web for a Manual/UserGuide of the Celestia program but couldn't find one....does anyone know about it? Thanks.
I have Celestia v1.2.5 running on the following machine:
Dell Dimension8200
WinXP Pro/SP1
P4 2.53Ghz 533MhzFSB
2Gb RDRAM PC800
ATI RADEON8500 PRO 128MB videocard
Viewsonic VP230mb 23.1" LCD 1600x1200 native
2 HD 120Gb each
Dell Dimension8200
WinXP Pro/SP1
P4 2.53Ghz 533MhzFSB
2Gb RDRAM PC800
ATI RADEON8500 PRO 128MB videocard
Viewsonic VP230mb 23.1" LCD 1600x1200 native
2 HD 120Gb each
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John Van Vliet
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Manual
the best bet is to read all the posts and take notes
The universe of Celestia is vast and is evolving
Dear Alegator:
Celestia is an incredible program that turns out to be quite simple to use. There are about 30 or so "commands'' you can give it, via keyboard or mouse. To see each of them, simply click on the "help" menu and select "Controls".
There is also a tutorial on the main Celestia website, submitted by Frank Gregorio as a "lesson" for students. Although it is designed to be done by kids in a computer class, you can follow the same instructions. It takes you step by step through some of Celestia's features and tells you which buttons and keys to press to put Celestia through its paces. Download it and if you have further questions, feel free to post them here.
If you read these many posts in this forum, you'll discover that a whole bunch of "add-ons" for Celestia have been designed by dozens of folks around the world. There are incredible textures of the planets with shadowed mountains, coral reefs, moving clouds, deep craters in 3D and even an erupting volcano on Io. There are spaceship models of many ships and satellites, including the massive space station from the movie 2001, a Space Oddysey. There are entire solar systems with double stars, planets and moons that folks have placed into orbit around some of the stars in Celestia's night sky. Forum contributers have designed and made available, spinning black holes, pulsars and brown dwarf stars. There is even a great model of the Death Star from the Star Wars movies, which you can place in orbit around the planet Tatooine. The only thing not yet designed is a wookie spaceship. To get the full potential of Celestia, therefore, you really need to explore and download many of these extra features. To understand all of them, you will have to invest a lot of time in reading this forum. Fortunately, there are a few places where some of the forum contributors have placed a collection of links. The main Celestia website has a link titled "add-ons". Go there first. Once you do, however, you'll get hooked, just as I did. Celestia is evolving and we are all evolving with it.
Welcome to its universe.
Regards,
Frank Gregorio
Celestia is an incredible program that turns out to be quite simple to use. There are about 30 or so "commands'' you can give it, via keyboard or mouse. To see each of them, simply click on the "help" menu and select "Controls".
There is also a tutorial on the main Celestia website, submitted by Frank Gregorio as a "lesson" for students. Although it is designed to be done by kids in a computer class, you can follow the same instructions. It takes you step by step through some of Celestia's features and tells you which buttons and keys to press to put Celestia through its paces. Download it and if you have further questions, feel free to post them here.
If you read these many posts in this forum, you'll discover that a whole bunch of "add-ons" for Celestia have been designed by dozens of folks around the world. There are incredible textures of the planets with shadowed mountains, coral reefs, moving clouds, deep craters in 3D and even an erupting volcano on Io. There are spaceship models of many ships and satellites, including the massive space station from the movie 2001, a Space Oddysey. There are entire solar systems with double stars, planets and moons that folks have placed into orbit around some of the stars in Celestia's night sky. Forum contributers have designed and made available, spinning black holes, pulsars and brown dwarf stars. There is even a great model of the Death Star from the Star Wars movies, which you can place in orbit around the planet Tatooine. The only thing not yet designed is a wookie spaceship. To get the full potential of Celestia, therefore, you really need to explore and download many of these extra features. To understand all of them, you will have to invest a lot of time in reading this forum. Fortunately, there are a few places where some of the forum contributors have placed a collection of links. The main Celestia website has a link titled "add-ons". Go there first. Once you do, however, you'll get hooked, just as I did. Celestia is evolving and we are all evolving with it.
Welcome to its universe.
Regards,
Frank Gregorio