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I'm just having a general tidy-up of my CELESTIA installation, and amongst the things I'm doing is saving into my bookmarks, the location at the 'beginning times' of a few model add-ons that have beginning and ending times defined within their SSC.
This makes it very easy for me to go to, and view the model in question without having to set the date, or quickly reverse/ forward time, each time that I want to view the same model again.

However this can be a bit of a pain setting up, especially when Julian Dates are used in the SSC.

I'm just wondering if it would be possible for a future version of CELESTIA to automatically send the user to the starting date and time of an objects SSC, (if it has been specified) after you have selected it?

regards
TERRIER

PS Probably a question for Jack Higgins!
If you could provide a list of beginning dates and times for your lunar landers in a day/month/year format it would be most helpful to me!!!

I have a couple I could help you out with.

Apollo 10
Beginning "1969 05 18 12:49" # Launch
Ending "1969 05 26 12:55" # Return

Apollo11
Beginning "1969 07 16 09:32" # Launch
Ending "1969 07 24 12:55" # Return

TERRIER,
Don't have time at the moment, but i'll send you on the dates as soon as I can. I've been busy all last week, and this weekend with study for the christmas exams (they're on next week as well). That's why I haven't replied to your last email yet as well...

Good luck with the exams Jack....
....in the meantime (it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be ) I've managed to come up with a list of the start dates, in day/month/year format for all your current Russian lunar lander models with the help of a website I usually use for converting to/from julian dates. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html

I might as well display the list here for any others who might be interested;

Luna 2 Beginning 13-sep-1959 22:02:04 UT
Luna 5 Beginning 12-may-1965 00:00:00 UT
Luna 7 Beginning 07-oct-1965 00:00:00 UT
Luna 8 Beginning 07-dec-1965 00:00:00 UT
Luna 9 Beginning 03-feb-1966 18:44:51 UT
Luna 13 Beginning 24-dec-1966 18:01:00 UT
Luna 15 Beginning 21-jul-1967 00:00:00 UT
Luna 16(Full) Beginning 20-sep-1970 15:18:00 UT
Luna 16(Remains) Beginning 21-sep-1970 07:42:59 UT
Luna 17 Beginning 17-nov-1970 03:46:59 UT
Lunokhod 1 Beginning 04-oct-1971 00:00:00 UT
Luna 18 Beginning 11-sep-1971 00:00:00 UT
Luna 20(Full) Beginning 21-feb-1972 19:19:00 UT
Luna 20(Remains) Beginning 22-feb-1972 22:58:00 UT
Luna 21 Beginning 15-jan-1973 23:34:59 UT
Lunokhod 2 Beginning 20-may-1973 00:00:00 UT
Luna 23 Beginning 01-nov-1974 00:00:00 UT
Luna 24(Full) Beginning 18-aug-1976 02:00:00 UT
Luna 24(Remains) Beginning 19-aug-1976 05:25:00 UT

regards
TERRIER

Thanks... Chemistry, Applied maths & physics next week (not sure which order... ) And i've really got to stop staying up so late.. Turning into bh!!

I'll add those dates in to my ssc as soon as I get a chance!

Chemistry, Applied maths & physics next week

i've really got to stop staying up so late..

Late night cramming sessions eh, Jack !?

Terrier, I just comment out all the start /finish dates in ssc so I can see the craft etc now. The invisible MIR question has come up at least a couple of times hasnt it? If I want to see them at the right time its easy enough, but it usually looks much the same...

TERRIER wrote:Late night cramming sessions eh, Jack !?

You'd better believe it!

At least I have a couple of hours tomorrow morning before Chemistry- vast amounts of cramming...

(Actually it's not as bad as it sounds- I know everything pretty well, but you can never do too much study the [day before] / [morning of] the exam)