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Hi everyone . I just downladed Celestia and have to say that I`m impressed. Just one thing though, every time I try to visit another galaxy nothing happens . In the GOTO box I can enter a planet or star and there is not a problem , but if I enter a galaxy,say M101 for example , I stay still . It`s probably something I`m doing wrong but I don`t know what .
I have checked on the viewing options and galaxies are enabled . Any ideas would be appreciated .

Goonster wrote:Hi everyone . I just downladed Celestia and have to say that I`m impressed. Just one thing though, every time I try to visit another galaxy nothing happens . In the GOTO box I can enter a planet or star and there is not a problem , but if I enter a galaxy,say M101 for example , I stay still . It`s probably something I`m doing wrong but I don`t know what .
I have checked on the viewing options and galaxies are enabled . Any ideas would be appreciated .

did you leave a space between the letter and the number??

like M<space>101

Otherwise it won't work. You must see M 101 in the top left corner...after entering it into the command line.

And then hit G

Bye Fridger

Did you try M 101 (with a space)?

Dammit Fridger, you beat me to it. lol.

Thanks guys . I knew it would be something stupid ! Just tried and it worked a treat .

This brings up a point about the galaxies catalogue - which is the more common usage when using Messier designations: with or without the space? Personally, I'm more used to seeing the designation without the space.

chaos syndrome wrote:This brings up a point about the galaxies catalogue - which is the more common usage when using Messier designations: with or without the space? Personally, I'm more used to seeing the designation without the space.

Me too. I already asked to remove the space before, but O well, ...

Technically, it would just mean to remove a simple space in the PERL output format of deepsky.dsc. So this is certainly trivial. But what is less trivial is that many people are meanwhile used to that space.

Hence one should envisage a solution that accepts BOTH ways of writing, with and without a space! That's why I did not simply leave the space away so far.

And.. I am busy otherwise since ~ 2 weeks.

Bye Fridger

You can also click on a star, or galaxy, with your mouse to select it.