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I have two questions :

1. Can J somehow made Celestia start in full-screen mode (without pressing Alt+Enter)? And the same thing to enable auto-magnitude? And once again the same thing to turn light travel delay on at start-up. Should I edit a configuration file, the Registry or sth? Hm?

2. Is it possible to decrease the minimum limit of FOV (so that it was smaller than 3.0")?
Why ?
Take a look at HST photo of Betelgeuse star. It's impossible to see the same picture in Celestia using FOV decreasing function. Also, it would be VERY interesting to use the Celestia's "telescope" to see planets around other stars - viewing from the Solar System, of course.
And I propose to increase the maximal FOV limit to 180°.

Alex, Poland

Hello Alexx

To start Celestia full screen, edit the Celestia windows shortcut.
After Celestia.exe, in the target box, add


Thats a space, and two dashes. (do not use Capitals in fullscreen)

A bigger FOV upper limit would be good- the current limit of 125 or so is just an arbitrary number is it?

Take a look at HST photo of Betelgeuse star. It's impossible to see the same picture in Celestia using FOV decreasing function.

It would not be possible even if the FOV could be decreased further, because Celestia doesn't render the star's model if you are further than 1ly from it - it will always look like a point.

Cheers,
Paul

How can I start Celestia with a specific resolution? It always starts in 800x600 mode.

If you're running it under Windows in windowed mode, Celestia records the window size and position in the registry when it exits. The next time it starts it'll use the size it had when it exited.

In other words, just drag the edges to the size you want and leave them there.

Use the Render/Set Display Mode menu to set the full-screen resolution you want it to use. That's sticky, too. Only the resolutions specified in your monitor's INF file are available (if you're running Windows).

I find that if i change to a diferent resolution, then exit Celestia.
when i start celestia again it defaults back to the original resolution.

But.... if after selecting the new resolution, I change to windowed mode and back again, it seems to store the settings.

*sigh*

I can only believe it's another difference in the different versions of Windows, in this case how they handle the individual user's registry entries.

I'm running Win XP Pro.

same here