Suggestions for addon selection / starter kit anyone?
Posted: 06.12.2006, 10:36
Hi fellow astrophiles and virtual space-farers!
what a great program. Many thanks to those who share their hard work and imagination with the rest of us. My kudos to Chris Laurel and all the other hardworking authors.
I stumbled upon Celestia only last week and I am now running v1.4.1 the basic install on a P4 2.2 GHz with half gig or RAM and 32 M of video RAM.
It seems that there is a lot more to Celestia than the base package and to really explore the SW's possibilties you need the add-ons.
Could you guys suggest/recommend to me some addons ( out of the bewildering array ) that would allow me to:
* Have a high resolution version of the Earth, its clouds, nightlights and high res version of our moon ?
* Have high resolution versions of all planets other and moons in the solar systems ?
* Have finer grained star surfaces ?
* Be able to observe the flares on stars ( or at least our sun ) ?
I have very limited download bandwidth available to me, hence I would appreciate some help and directions to be able to select and download addons in a more targetted fashoin.
Any pointers to get me started are appreciated.
Regards
dar_beh_dar
what a great program. Many thanks to those who share their hard work and imagination with the rest of us. My kudos to Chris Laurel and all the other hardworking authors.
I stumbled upon Celestia only last week and I am now running v1.4.1 the basic install on a P4 2.2 GHz with half gig or RAM and 32 M of video RAM.
It seems that there is a lot more to Celestia than the base package and to really explore the SW's possibilties you need the add-ons.
Could you guys suggest/recommend to me some addons ( out of the bewildering array ) that would allow me to:
* Have a high resolution version of the Earth, its clouds, nightlights and high res version of our moon ?
* Have high resolution versions of all planets other and moons in the solar systems ?
* Have finer grained star surfaces ?
* Be able to observe the flares on stars ( or at least our sun ) ?
I have very limited download bandwidth available to me, hence I would appreciate some help and directions to be able to select and download addons in a more targetted fashoin.
Any pointers to get me started are appreciated.
Regards
dar_beh_dar
