hrvoje wrote:Hello!
I'm new to Celestia, I browsed through program, but could not find the way to set my home location and position the view on it.
The best I could do is to approximately position the view over my part of the world and then use * to view backwards.
This can't be it, right?
Thanks,
Hrvoje
Unlike 2d astronomical software, in Celestia, the location of the observer is deliberately kept
variable. A virtual spaceship, so to speak. So there is no menue entry for storing a default reference location for the observer position like in usual astronomy software.
You can however learn how to write scripts (cel or Lua scripting) and --via scripting commands-- put yourself (the observer) always in the same location after starting up Celestia. The respective commands would go into the start-up file 'start.cel' or 'start.celx'.
Of course you can land the observer on any place of any celestial body by means of key shortcuts. Since you did not care to tell us your operating system, I cannot tell you the precise respective key shortcuts. The keys for landing on the surface of a celestial body are (unfortunately) OS dependent .
You may also enter your desired coordinates in the respective menue entry (Navigation->Goto object...). But they are NOT stored there after a restart.
This and many other know-how you could have found out easily by reading the excellent Celestia manual. Using a powerful and necessarily complex program like Celestia without reading a manual first, will deprive you of most of the interesting things you can do with it...
Bye Fridger