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Hi, all...

i'm newbie here... and also newbie for using celestia and sure need your assists...

i have some questions about celestia...

1. what makes celestia feel different with Google earth...??
2. is celestia require internet connection in every launch like google earth...??
3. see the image below :



what the meaning of that (see : left below)...?? is that internet speed indicator...?? or else...??

thanks in advance...

Rgd

Hi cocacola,
The first 2 questions I'll leave for someone else. But question 3. This speed indicator is a spacecraft speed indicator. If you press the "a" key the speed increases. If you press the "z" key your speed decreases. If you press the "s" key you stop. The number pad controls directions.
Anyhow, If you look in your Celestia folder, there is a file called controls.txt. This shows what the keys on the keyboard are controling. Assuming you are using Windows and used default settings when Celestia was installed, the Celestia folder will be in your Program Files folder.
cartrite

cartrite wrote:Hi cocacola,
The first 2 questions I'll leave for someone else. But question 3. This speed indicator is a spacecraft speed indicator. If you press the "a" key the speed increases. If you press the "z" key your speed decreases. If you press the "s" key you stop. The number pad controls directions.
Anyhow, If you look in your Celestia folder, there is a file called controls.txt. This shows what the keys on the keyboard are controling. Assuming you are using Windows and used default settings when Celestia was installed, the Celestia folder will be in your Program Files folder.
cartrite

ok thank you very much, cartrite...

i have been pressing 'a' key till spacecraft speed up to gazilion ly/s... >.< *LOL*
very interesting...

thanks for that and i'll find the other topic for the first 2 question...

thanks in advance...

rgd

Oh yeah. regarding question 2, to my knowledge, the official version of Celestia doesn't connect to the internet and a connection is not needed for running Celestia.
cartrite

As for #1, some major differences are
+ Celelestia is fully 3D, allowing you to travel through space to view things from all angles.
+ Celestia's objects orbit around one another as accurately as you want, so it can be (and is) used for real spacecraft trajectory analysis.
+ Celestia's source code is readily available, so if it doesn't do what you want, you can change it so it does.

+ Google Earth provides more and higher resolution commercial maps of the Earth
+ Google Earth provides links to many more locations and to companies associated with them.

If they really wanted to, I'm sure Google could provide much of the same functionality in Google Earth as is available in Celestia.

cartrite wrote:Oh yeah. regarding question 2, to my knowledge, the official version of Celestia doesn't connect to the internet and a connection is not needed for running Celestia.
cartrite

Eh?

The official version does indeed connect to the internet every time you
click on an "Info" tag. Bring up the Earth, right click , click on Info.

The page that's brought up in your browser is directed to
whatever site the "InfoURL" tag is pointed to. Have a look at the
Earth in "solarsys.ssc."

Just FYI, Bob

BobHegwood wrote:

cartrite wrote:Oh yeah. regarding question 2, to my knowledge, the official version of Celestia doesn't connect to the internet and a connection is not needed for running Celestia.
cartrite

Eh?

The official version does indeed connect to the internet every time you
click on an "Info" tag. Bring up the Earth, right click , click on Info.

The page that's brought up in your browser is directed to
whatever site the "InfoURL" tag is pointed to. Have a look at the
Earth in "solarsys.ssc."

Just FYI, Bob

I stand corrected. That's probably why I didn't want to answer that question in my first reply.
cartrite

Well, the question was

2. is celestia require internet connection in every launch like google earth...??

and Celestia certainly does not require an internet connection for every launch! The InfoURL is the only feature of Celestia that makes use of an internet connection. Otherwise the program can be used offline entirely.

steffens

If I remember correctly you can modify the ssc file containing the info urls to point to any url you want... it could be local ie. on your hard drive.

Hey! I wonder if you could use them as a program launcher? And why would you? God I need a beer!

bh wrote:If I remember correctly you can modify the ssc file containing the info urls to point to any url you want... it could be local ie. on your hard drive.

Hey! I wonder if you could use them as a program launcher? And why would you? God I need a beer!

With the .exe doesn't work; so no plugins for Celestia. Eh, eh...

Oh well... just a thought.

bh wrote:Oh well... just a thought.

You may do a HTML page with buttons linked to .exe, though.

Naturally, the plugins for Celestia are the Lua scripts, but some little external astronomical programs or utility bring in from the prompt should useful; although the processor would behave as well when iconized or right clicked, otherwise there is the hang's risk.