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Hello

There is a locked thread hidden in the Celestia Scripting forum in which we can post celURLs.
CelURLS are a really cool way to share your experience in Celestia. They are much more easy to post than pictures and allow to show a dynamic animation of what your see. (Pictures are also very cool indeed! Look at them!)


I have converted a large part of the links so that we can view them with Celestia 1.5. With few exceptions, I kept those that work fine on my machine (windows XP) and with the addons that I have.

Here is the list of URLs in order of apparition

By don
Constelations rotating around the North Pole
Hubble space telescope
"Chase" the Moon with the Earth in view and time sped up
Chasing the ISS

Moon orbiting Earth (starting from the lower right corner)
Follow Earth with Orbits displayed (Sun orbits Earth)
Using the Ecliptical Coordinate System on our sun (Sol), allows you to watch the planets orbit the sun
Lock Earth-Moon showing Moon Phases. Earth is the reference object and Moon is the target object
Another example using Earth as the reference object, but Sol as the target
Chase Moon, with Earth in view

ISS rotating over Sol
Sol rise from ISS
Toutatis (2004-09-2 - ~1.360.000 km for Earth

OCCULTATIONS:
Venus on Jupiter
Mars on Neptune
Venus on Neptune
Mars on Uranus
Mercure on Uranus
Venus on Saturn
Jupiter with Europa on Neptune
Full Solar System view
norm.shaw -- Moon set following the Earth

By Rich : Skylab shot

By Don
Very close view of Thebe on Jupiter
Halley
Saturn Sunrise (track sol, sychro saturn)

by Harry
Mercury double sunrise

transits and occultations by don (accelerate to see motion)
9 BC Mars Transits Saturn
1613 Jupiter Occults Neptune
1818 Venus Transits Jupiter
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Hello

It seems that the post above is incomplete. He is that was lost:

2003 Transit of Mercury
2012 Transit of Venus
Future Transit of Mars
2065 Venus Occults Ganymede
2065 Venus Transits Jupiter
1984 Earth Transit from Mars
2020 Jupiter and Saturn about 1.5 arcminutes apart
1972 Moon Occults the Pleiades

by backman
Eagle Nebula viewed from Mars (this CEL requires the EAGLE NEBULA ADDON)
Good morning from Phobos!
Phobos orbiting Mars (better if you?ve got a fine Mars texture -8k or 16k, for example-)

by don. Saturn?s valls (from Titan surface)

By backman
Mir and Moon
Earth passing through M16 (requires M16 addon)
Solar eclipse in 2005
Moon is smaller than South America

by Hoover
posted by Psykotic. Triple transit of Jupiter's Moons in March of 2004.

By Terrier
For these links you must download the following addons. But believe me, it is worthwhile!
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creat ... r-full.zip
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creat ... r-full.zip
http://celestiamotherlode.net/creators/ ... d_CMOD.zip

The 1979 fly-by of Saturn by Pioneer 11
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Cassini

by Hoover: Cassini and Enceladus

By VBSmiles: 1998 KY26 With Borrelly

Pleiades by Juan Marino

by Hoover : To see this one all you have to do is live a long time and hitch a ride on a ship to Neptune.


And now, post YOUR favorite urls

It is more than easy to deal with celURLs.

Don explained that in his original topic so I just copy it

Don wrote:To capture a cel://URL:
* Adjust the Celestia scene to where you want it.
* Press Ctrl+Ins to capture the cel://URL to the clipboard.

To save the captured cel://URL text:
* Paste the text to a plain text file or into a new message here in this topic. Remember to describe what the link shows, and if any add-ons are required.

To post a cel://URL in this topic:
* Enter a description of what the URL shows
* Note if any add-ons are required.
* Paste the text into the editor box.

And it’s all! No need to play with the URL button or whatever else…

To play with CelURLs it is better to run Celestia before clicking on the links.
Maximize the window or bette switch in full screen mode.
And then DON’T CLOSE Celestia. Just switch between Celestia, the forum or others applications with the [Alt + Tab] keys. On my system, Celestia may run in full screen and there is no problem to switch between applications.

See you soon

Hello

This is a close view of the space station Mir while orbiting the Earth. At startup, the simulation is paused. We can see Mir as it is in the shadow of the Earth. If your setting of ambient light is ‘none’ Mir is invisible! So I prefer to set it on ‘low’.
Now press the space bar. The time is accelerated. After a few seconds, the station goes out of the shadow and then we can see it flying over the Earth.

cel://Follow/Sol:Earth:Mir/2000-01-23T0 ... lm=0&ver=2

If you want to see it at real speed, just press le ‘K’ key two times. The real speed is actually fast!

EDIT:I know that you have views that you like! So Share them!

Hello

Though Saturn is not the most beautiful planet, its rings are very attractive. This is the story of a drunken space pilot who wants to travel between the rings and the planet.

As usual, launch Celestia before clicking on the link, then press the spacebar to resume the simulation.

cel://Freeflight/2008-12-22T11:23:48.69 ... lm=0&ver=2
 

Is it scheduled to put a selection of these url directly in Celestia menu?

The Moon always shows us the same face. But for some reasons it swings a little here and there. Here we are following the Moon from the surface of the Earth. We are high enough (20km) so the atmosphere, although visible, lets us see the Moon.
cel://PhaseLock/Sol:Earth/Sol:Earth:Moo ... 3760&ver=2

Splendid! But it would be interesting to see the other side of the Moon. The only thing to do is to climb at an altitude of 500000 km! From here the variation of the distance to Earth is spectacular.
cel://PhaseLock/Sol:Earth/Sol:Earth:Moo ... 3760&ver=2

And the dance of the Earth in the dark sky of the Moon:
cel://SyncOrbit/Sol:Earth:Moon/2009-01- ... 3760&ver=2
 

These are three very good views, Jogad. Thanks a bunch.
Guillermo

jogad wrote:Splendid! But it would be interesting to see the other side of the Moon. The only thing to do is to climb at an altitude of 500000 km! From here the variation of the distance to Earth is spectacular.
cel://PhaseLock/Sol:Earth/Sol:Earth:Moo ... 3760&ver=2

A scarier version : cel://PhaseLock/Sol:Earth/Sol:Earth:Moon/2006-09-07T11:32:58.98115?x=bcY6fn3fbHMP&y=1N1sRBazVf///////////w&z=6DEFCGI8oy4E&ow=0.750300&ox=-0.123685&oy=-0.611712&oz=-0.218084&select=Sol:Earth:Moon&fov=35.579517&ts=-100000.000000&ltd=0&p=0&rf=-1344741997&lm=-1074933760&ver=2

jogad wrote:I have converted a large part of the links so that we can view them with Celestia 1.5.

Ah, good that this topic gets raised, I was already looking for a way to do the same thing with my own collection. (from a 1.3 past)

How exactly _do_ you convert old format cel: links?

Regards
Raj