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I've uploaded a new prerelease of Celestia 1.4.0 for Windows:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre6.exe

The changes since 1.4.0pre5 are mostly just bug fixes:
- Added the SAO and HD cross indexes
- Implemented radius field for star definitions in .stc files
- Fixed the multiple star illumination bug reported by Selden/Evil Dr.
- Made phase lock and sync orbit work for star targets

--Chris

Downloaded it.

Ran it.

Drooled a bit....

Looks lovely, Chris and co.

Everything looks right to me, but I'm no expert.

Now to post a bug report

Regards,

Cormoran

Celestia 1.4.0 pre 5 => 11.2 Mo
Celestia 1.4.0 pre 6 => 12.0 Mo

O_o

The only thing I can say Is WOW!!. As always, a wonderful job. Of course I may be a little biased, because I always think you do a nice job on this.

symaski62 wrote:Celestia 1.4.0 pre 5 => 11.2 Mo
Celestia 1.4.0 pre 6 => 12.0 Mo

Et? Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire par l?, Symasky62?
A mesure des nouvelles fonctionnalit?s, le programme de base prend de plus en plus de place, c'est normal, et la taille n'est vraiment, mais alors vraiment pas excessive, r?ellement! J'avoue que j'ai *vraiment* du mal ? comprendre certains de tes messages... et pourtant je suis francais
Pourrais-tu etre plus explicite dans tes interventions? (Ce qui nous permettrait de te r?pondre ?fficacement lorsque tu poses une question, par exemple..) S'il te plait, n'utilise pas un style t?l?graphique (en anglais ou en fran?ais) mais exprime-toi franchement! (en francais au besoin comme il te l'a ?t? maintes fois r?pet?, la traduction du message se fera d'une mani?re ou d'une autre car nous sommes ici entre gens de bonne volont?). De gr?ce, ne poste pas des formules si courtes et si incompr?hensibles dans l'une ou l'autre langue qu'on ne sais jamais vraiment ce que tu veux dire! Nous sommes nombreux ? pouvoir t'aider, mais fais un effort de lisibilit?, Stp...

Summary:
What is the problem? I am a French speaker but I have some difficulties to understand what you want to say in a lot of messages, Symasky62: neither in 'French' nor in 'English', alas... Please, do not worry to type a complete message, in French for example, not an abstract one as you wrote sometimes: some people here can help you, but you may do the first step!
Jeam

Jeam Tag wrote:Summary:
What is the problem? I am a French speaker but I have some difficulties to understand what you want to say in a lot of messages, Symasky62: neither in 'French' nor in 'English', alas... Please, do not worry to type a complete message, in French for example, not an abstract one as you wrote sometimes: some people here can help you, but you may do the first step!
Jeam

Quite. Symaski62's "messages" often infuriate me, since he basically does the equivalent of writing one or two words, adding smileys judiciously, and waving his arm around. I really would rather not take wild guesses at what someone means when they post.

Symaski62 - s'il vois plait, pouvez-vous ecrire la prose en Francais ici a l'avenir?

(which is my probably horribly wrong way of saying "can you please write prose (ie long sentences, be explicit) in French here in future?")

Is it just me or does the pre06 run faster than current release version?

I know... many people think we're just whining... so, i try not to post much.... i don't think i have for months.... quite often, however, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, it seems... I'm very i n terested n this software... Always running it in the Apple stores when i visit. on the large 30" monitors wow. wow. wow. Celestia in HD? LOL cool. sooooooo, i'm asking very casually now... will there ba a 1.4x release for the Mac soon?

See Celestia 1.4.0pre6 for Mac OS X

p.s.
There's no need to post the same question in more than one place. Many people use the link view posts since last visit. Seeing the same message many times can be rather annoying. Please delete your duplicate posts.

We are almost in March.Where is the 1.4.0 pre 7?

chris wrote:I've uploaded a new prerelease of Celestia 1.4.0 for Windows:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre6.exe

The changes since 1.4.0pre5 are mostly just bug fixes:
- Added the SAO and HD cross indexes
- Implemented radius field for star definitions in .stc files
- Fixed the multiple star illumination bug reported by Selden/Evil Dr.
- Made phase lock and sync orbit work for star targets

--Chris

danielj wrote:We are almost in March.Where is the 1.4.0 pre 7?

chris wrote:I've uploaded a new prerelease of Celestia 1.4.0 for Windows:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre6.exe

The changes since 1.4.0pre5 are mostly just bug fixes:
- Added the SAO and HD cross indexes
- Implemented radius field for star definitions in .stc files
- Fixed the multiple star illumination bug reported by Selden/Evil Dr.
- Made phase lock and sync orbit work for star targets

--Chris

Just have a look at Chris' new Avatar.

Bye Fridger

danielj wrote:We are almost in March.Where is the 1.4.0 pre 7?

Daniel,

Perhaps Chris might be more motivated to prepare another release if
he received a little gratitude for ALL of the work he's already put into
this spectacular program.

Sorry, but I just don't understand how anyone can even suggest that Chris
should hurry up and create another version for us. What the hell is wrong
with you?

No... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I'm afraid that I simply just don't
understand why you would even have said such a thing. The next release, or
pre-release will come whenever Chris gets the time (and possibly the
motivation) to do such a thing.

Thanks, Bob

Bob Hegwood wrote:Perhaps Chris might be more motivated to prepare another release if
he received a little gratitude for ALL of the work he's already put into
this spectacular program.

Ouch. Anyway, here's my praise for Chris's hard work on an awesome, cross-platform, high-quality product that wins double-super brownie points for being free and open source. Celestia is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Keep up the good work Chris!!!

I was wondering about what was happening with the new prereleases of Celestia, I was thinking that pre6 might have been the final 1.4.0. prerelease.

Once again, great work Chris, few programs downloadable for free off the internet are as good as Celestia.

Michael Kilderry

Obviously, Celestia is a great piece of work. But that said, it has been quite a while since a new prerelease was released (or at least it seems that way) - I'm rather curious as to what is currently going on too... will there be another prerelease or is the final version of 1.4.0 in the works?

But the Chris work is very good.I am only concerned because in this step,we will have Celestia 1.4.0 final version in 2 years(launching one pre version each 6 months) and I don??t know how many changes means a pre version,i.e,there were sereral changes,but still in the same pre6 version.So I don??t know what is the macgnitude of changes to "transform" a pre6 into a pre7 or final version.
Months ago,each pre version have many changes.No,I??m a bit confused

Bob Hegwood wrote:

danielj wrote:We are almost in March.Where is the 1.4.0 pre 7?

Daniel,

Perhaps Chris might be more motivated to prepare another release if
he received a little gratitude for ALL of the work he's already put into
this spectacular program.

Sorry, but I just don't understand how anyone can even suggest that Chris
should hurry up and create another version for us. What the hell is wrong
with you?

No... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I'm afraid that I simply just don't
understand why you would even have said such a thing. The next release, or
pre-release will come whenever Chris gets the time (and possibly the
motivation) to do such a thing.

Thanks, Bob