Is there a way to change travel time?

[Andy]

Hi guys, and/or gals. When I'm way out near Pluto and I select Sol and goto it, there's a little Traveller timer that shows up as I whiz past everything. Is there any way to change this time to for instance change the time it takes to get to Sol from Pluto to 45 seconds instead of 5 seconds. This would make it seem like I'm travelling through space rather than warping through. Thanks!

[billybob884]

This has been brought up before, but i'm not sure where. Currently there is no way to do this, but maybe ther could be an option in the 'Option' menu where you can tell celestia to give you a pop up box to enter a travel time when you press 'G', the default set as 5 when you have it disabled.

[selden]

It's a little awkward, but you could use a script.
e.g. create a text file named 45sec.cel that contains

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{goto { time 45 } }

This will take 45 seconds to go to the currently selected object.
Using Celestia v1.3, you just have to double-click on the script file's icon in a desktop "explorer" window. Celestia will execute the script and goto the object.

I just tried it with v1.3.0pre6, and it worked beautifly.

I hope this helps.