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to run the complete risk of sounding like a newbie, can anyone help me find some nebulae? i would love to visit the crab nebula the horse head nebula and others, is there a web page that would list the coordinates of such celestial features? or tell me a way to locate them?

such as:

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)

I honestly can't remember if celestia comes with nebula already built in.
I suggest downloading and installing nebula add-ons. It's worth it!

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... ebulae.php
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... ebulae.php

wow i cant find any nebulae

crab nebula ngc 1952 doesn't exist in celestia. wtf! M1? non existant infact the first one hundred messier objects are not in celestia!

ourselfish wrote:wow i cant find any nebulae

crab nebula ngc 1952 doesn't exist in celestia. wtf! M1? non existant infact the first one hundred messier objects are not in celestia!

Then you need to add them.

okay, I've downloaded m1 and installed it in the correct directory, but how do i find it? I've tried pressing enter and typing in M 1 or crab nebula but nothing it doesn't select anything. can anyone help

ourselfish,

The only way to be sure about the names of objects included in an Addon is to read the Addon's catalogs.

.SSC (Solar System Catalog)
.STC (STar Catalog) and
.DSC (Deep Space Catalog) files are all plain text. You can use Notepad, Wordpad or your favorite text editor to examine their contents.

For more details, please read the Web page
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html

Is nebulae rendering enabled?

Fenerit wrote:Is nebulae rendering enabled?

Ah, more or less important for viewing Nebulae in Celestia.

im not sure what i did i tryed installing some other nebula and wala i read the nifty help on how to install nebula, i placed m1 in the extras folder and made sure they were set up celestia/extras/addons/m1_crab nebula

im still just figureing all this out thanks for the help.

ourselfish wrote: im not sure what i did i tryed installing some other nebula and wala i read the nifty help on how to install nebula, i placed m1 in the extras folder and made sure they were set up celestia/extras/addons/m1_crab nebula

im still just figureing all this out thanks for the help.

Before you do anything else, check the "render" options at the top
of Celestia while it's running. Then, click on "View Options", then
make certain that the "Nebulae" box is checked. If it isn't, you won't
see BEANS.

Hope that helps.

Good Luck, Brain-Dead