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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!

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.

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?

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?

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.

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!!

Malenfant wrote: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]