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Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 02.12.2010, 20:23
by t00fri
Enjoy the thread started by Andrew (aka ajtribick) about
Topography of Saturn's icy moonshttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=391It's about Dr. Paul Schenk's first topographic data of these moons obtained with Cassini's stereo camera! I took quite some effort to generate a 4k normalmap for
Iapetus from these pioneering data that is for download at CM.
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 16.12.2010, 17:48
by t00fri
New (Nov 30, 2010) Tethys map & 16k VT set for Downloadhttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=392About two weeks ago (Nov 30, 2010) a much improved hires map of the icy Saturn moon
Tethys was released by the NASA/Cassini mission.
In view of the high imaging standard, I felt it was worthwhile to create a corresponding
16k VT-archive for Celestia (.Sci). Of course, I used my
F-TexTools to guarantee highest possible quality. Have a look at some impressive screenshots and download the VT's! You will also find a discussion about Tethys' colors in my thread.
Enjoy,
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 03.01.2011, 22:51
by MiR
Thanks, "
not-making-addons"-Fridger
for these great add-ons!
Good job as always.
Michael
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 15.03.2011, 14:11
by t00fri
Tue, March 15, CM offline due to Ibiblio Infrastructure Migration!Meanwhile CelestialMatters cannot be reached anymore for the next 12-24 hours, depending on the progress the staff is making with the massive migration of the IBIBLIO Infrastructure.
I placed a corresponding message in CM yesterday, but some users may not have seen it.
Here is the original info by
John Reuning @ibiblio.org+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Short version:
What:
http://www.ibiblio.org and all hosted domains will be offline during an
infrastructure migration
When: Tuesday, March 15, 9:00 am EST until whenever we finish (est. is
12-24 hours)
Long version:
We're still on track to migrate tomorrow. I'll spare everyone the
really long version. For the full set of details, please see the
previous posts to the ibiblio-announce list. Below is the list of
hosts and services affected by the downtime.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 16.03.2011, 13:51
by t00fri
Here is a status report about the migration of the ibiblio infrastructure including domain hosts.
1) The transfer has been essentially completed, BUT
2) Ibiblio has changed the IP addresses!
We have to update the DNS entries with our domain host.
That will take a few hours to progagate through the net. Should be OK sometime tonight, at most by tomorrow morning.
I'll leave a note here as soon as CelestialMatters is accessible again as usual.
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 16.03.2011, 18:58
by Fenerit
...And I will declare "solved" this topic:
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16383 since now I can send messages but the "Connetting to
http://www.celestialmatters.org... on the Firefox's statusbar remains.
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 17.03.2011, 11:20
by t00fri
Hi all,
after the update of the DNS entry of our CM domain host has been completed, CelestialMatters is again accessible as usual. However there are now various warnings about a problem of allocating memory in the CM Web page etc. which I am investigating. This does not disturb the CM forum.
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 17.03.2011, 17:12
by t00fri
Online Radioactivity Measurements in Japanhttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=401I have opened a thread that will serve to provide concise measurement data for all Japanese provinces (cities) including the Fukushima region.
The links to the official data are on a per day/hour-by-hour basis, but the accompanying info is in Japanese.
Hence it would be great if Reiko could help to translate some of the crucial explanations!!!
Reiko?If there is interest I volunteer to Perl-extract the data and to produce intuitive image displays thereoff!
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 18.03.2011, 04:55
by Reiko
Where exactly you need translations?
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 18.03.2011, 16:17
by t00fri
Reiko wrote:Where exactly you need translations?
Hi Reiko,
could we move any further specific discussions about that to my radiation@Japan thread in CM?
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewt ... 01&start=6The reason is that in this CM News thread, I would like to mainly
list new topics in CM that may be interesting also to people here.
Thanks,
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 07.10.2011, 18:21
by t00fri
In-depth documentation of Celestia 1.6.1 source codehttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=417I make an extensive, clickable
Doxygen documentation of the latest official Celestia 1.6.1 source code available and discuss related matters. This may be of particular interest for people planning to implement their own custom code/features or simply to understand more of Celestia's code structure.
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 15.12.2011, 11:44
by t00fri
Gas cloud approaching super-massive Black Hole (Sgr A*)Exciting News:
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewt ... =8309#8309Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 17.12.2011, 12:25
by t00fri
Hi all,
the shatters.net user )??(??(J?E)??)??( appears to encounter blocking upon trying to read my recent CM thread about the
Higgs boson searches at LHC. You can help me a lot to track this problem down, if you let me know in case you encounter(ed) a similar problem.
The link in question is
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=419EDIT:Actually, I just learned that )??(??(J?E)??)??( is recently even unable to view the CM forum homepage!
Anybody else???
Thanks,
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 17.12.2011, 13:01
by Fenerit
From my part, no blocks neither few days ago nor today.
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 18.12.2011, 13:12
by DOJOMO
Fridger,
I've had no problems at all. I visit Celesyia Matters every day.
Regards,
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 22.01.2012, 20:04
by t00fri
Imagine the Solar System was part of a Globular Clusterhttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewt ... =8318#8318I discuss a cute "Gedanken experiment" and visualize it with my sophisticated, entirely new simulation of globular clusters for
Celestia.Sci.
I display some typical views that we would have from space just behind Earth, from the surface of Earth in twilight and from the Moon, say (no atmosphere). Of course, one could as well have placed some ficticious "solar system" with planets into any given globular cluster...
Enjoy,
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 23.01.2012, 20:55
by t00fri
Nick Risinger's MilkyWay for Celestia(.Sci) (Download)http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=423I summarize my work, discuss in detail the considerable advantages of
Nick Risingers panoramic MilkyWay photo (
http://skysurvey.org/) and offer a corresponding
add-on for download that provides a high-quality realistic rendering background for Celestia(.Sci).
(Creative Commons License)
Enjoy,
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 12.02.2012, 20:17
by t00fri
Working on the new Chinese Chang'e 2 Moon Texture http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=424This thread contains a detailed description of my approach of extracting and adapting the new high-quality moon texture for Celestia(.Sci). It will contain regular status reports and a discussion of possibly appearing problems.
When I am ready and content with the result, I'll offer it for download at CelestialMatters.
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 27.02.2012, 16:05
by t00fri
Still waiting for the perfect surface map of the Moonhttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=426In this thread, I present a thorough comparison of the two recent surface maps of our Moon: The brand new Chinese Chang'e 2 map and the recent map (Nov 2011) made of images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) by means of its Wide Angle Camera (WAC).
The title of this thread anticipates my conclusions...
Fridger
Re: CelestialMatters News
Posted: 07.03.2012, 19:56
by t00fri
My favorite Moon texture: Chang'e 2 remapped, colored, ..16khttp://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=428Now I have completed a very pleasing colored 16k Moon surface texture that fits perfectly to the LRO-LOLA normalmap. I have described to some detail the main steps (GIMP) that lead to the finalized result. If you also like the texture, let me know. I'll then wrap it up for
download...
Fridger