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I've recently downloaded celestia and it has rekindled my love of astronomy:). It is very rich and detailed but I was hoping to get even more stuff so I downloaded some addons. Thenumbered and minor moons packs worked beautifully, but the galaxies thing I downloaded from the place in the expansion tutorial did not work presumably because I have version 1.3 and it requires 1.2. So should I download 1.2 and use that? Is there noticeable graphical loss when I do that? Anyone have any comments or suggestions?

Heretic wrote:I've recently downloaded celestia and it has rekindled my love of astronomy:).

It seems to do that for a lot of people

It is very rich and detailed but I was hoping to get even more stuff so I downloaded some addons. Thenumbered and minor moons packs worked beautifully, but the galaxies thing I downloaded from the place in the expansion tutorial did not work

What expansion tutorial do you mean? Where did you get it? It needs to be expunged from the universe!

presumably because I have version 1.3 and it requires 1.2. So should I download 1.2 and use that?

I'd suggest not. Why not get the version of the galaxy catalogs intended for 1.3?

Is there noticeable graphical loss when I do that?

That depends on the graphics card you have. However, there would be a major loss in functionality.

Anyone have any comments or suggestions?

You might consider taking a look at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/catalogs.html. After downloading the catalogs you want from there, try following some of the links...

It turns out I just had to put Galaxy in front of all the object names and with a little script, I did and now it works:).

Heretic, huh? You wouldnt happen to live in CT, would you?

Why not Silver Spring, Is your name Corvus?
lol Anyone else play Heretic I&II?

No, what I meant by that is I know someone in CT with the aol screen name HereticSaint. I haven't seen him online for a while so I haven't been able to ask him about it.

I know.
In my post i was talking about Corvus the Heretic from the Heretic/Hexen series