Been playing around with Celestia for a while now, and I absolutly love it. I just had a thought for a possible feature to include in later iterations of the program: A limited view of stars/objects within a certain range (based most likely on lightyears), specified by the user. What this would amount to is a sphere of stars within a certain range, with all stars outside of that sphere dimming in brightness or even going dark completely.
Trying to look at the stars local to Sol can be quite a challange if you're trying to do it by sight due to the number of background stars. This method would make looking at star clusters easier as well.
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billybob884
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Just use the [ and ] keys to make more/less stars visible. when you make less visible, it elimanates the furthest ones first.
Unfortunately, this is absolutely wrong. For example, observe how Deneb, which is several thousand light-years away, is one of the last stars to fade away with the [ key. These keys eliminate the dimmest stars first.
Cheers,
Paul
Paul