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I love the dunes in the lower part of the planet close up... Where is Dodge City? And are the moons named Dillon, Kitty, and Doc?

Don:

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! WHAT A MAGNIFICENT WORLD!

I plan to retire from teaching in about a year. At this rate of advancement in Celestia, I will probably become a vegetable sitting in a chair in front of a computer console 12 hours a day, cruising space in the Celestia 1, visiting beautiful solar systems, nebula and black holes while listening to music and sound.

I'll surely get FAT!!!

Can't wait for Gunsmoke to come out as an add-on. Thanks for all you do!

Frank

OK:

HERE ARE SOME SCREENSHOTS FROM ONE OF MY EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES (the Life Cycle of Stars - Activity 6):

The first image will be full size. The rest will be thumbnails you can click on to see the larger image.

Image 1 - Earth 5 billion years from now, dying as our Red Giant sun approaches to engulf it (or get close to it)




Image 2 - A view of our Red giant Sun from the surface of Pluto, which is now a terraformed planet and home to whatever lifeforms manage to survive 4 billion years into our future.

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Image 3 - A colorful view of a rapidly spinning, hot white dwarf embedded in its planetary nebula, with a backdrop of the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies




Image 4 - Our sun, now a dead red dwarf, cooling down to a black dwarf billions of years in the future.




Image 5 - The birth of a new planet, forming next to a young protostar that is about to go nuclear.




Image 6 - One of Cham's magnificent black holes, surrounded by its hypernova debris (full size - couldn't resist).




Image 7 - an older black hole, adrift in space. Not actively feeding.




If you enjoy them, let me know and I'll post more screenshots from other Activities. If you haven't had the chance to take an educational journey ... perhaps this would be a good time. They are really enjoyable. You can find them on the education page on the Motherlode here

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/educational.php


Enjoy

Frank

Superb Frank! Thanks for sharing those...very inspiring.

Hi all,

After all those wonderful journeys, take a tour to some of my old but not so bad nebula (never finished )

Earth with Orion Barnard's loop in background


Orion M42 into red Barnard's loop gas (based on Robert Gendler astrophoto)


Rosetta NGC2237


MZ3 nebula with Orion Barnard's loop in background


He2-104


JLL

Reiko,

It would be helpful if you edited your post to include descriptions of your images. ie. Which addons are they?.. etc...

JLL:

Your nebula have truly enriched the Celestia universe. Thank you for your efforts ... on behalf of us ALL!

Happy new year!


Frank

Chuft-Captain wrote:Reiko,

It would be helpful if you edited your post to include descriptions of your images. ie. Which addons are they?.. etc...

If I could only remember exactly which add ons they are. I installed a whole bunch of them back in october.

This is the Atlantis. I'm not sure which add-on package it came with.

If I could only remember exactly which add ons they are. I installed a whole bunch of them back in october

Hi Reiko,

If you use Explorer's Search feature to find *.SSC files in your Extras folder containing the name of the object (eg. Atlantis in this case), you should be able to identify the containing folder of the addon, then just look for a readme file in that folder. That should generally identify the addon and creator.

Hope this helps,
CC

This is from the Edin star system made by kikinho

This one I believe is from fightspit's blue marble earth.
The Mediterranean at night.

I'll play along. I have a separate thread devoted to Astrobiology & Exoplanets, but this looked like a better place for this recent work in progress...

I think I'm finally homing in on my process for creating consistent, seamless, imaginary Gas Giants. I should be able to create these at any cloud density, turbulence, color and visibility soon... the turbulence scale on this one may yet be too large; but the detail shows up at this scale.



(click detail image for full..) ... verisimilitude is my goal, rather than (or in addition to) raw 'wow' factor.

enjoy,


- heath

Havin' a wild drive on Mimas...

Nice shot A.R.

4000 km above the earth..






Now at 2000 km




This is from Fightspit's Blue Marble Next Generation

Reiko wrote:4000 km above the earth..
Now at 2000 km
This is from Fightspit's Blue Marble Next Generation

Hello Reiko, what cloudmap texture are you using?
Thank you for the info.
Bye

Andrea

ANDREA wrote:

Reiko wrote:4000 km above the earth..
Now at 2000 km
This is from Fightspit's Blue Marble Next Generation

Hello Reiko, what cloudmap texture are you using?
Thank you for the info.
Bye

Andrea

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