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Hi all.

First, pardon for my english, its not very good.
I really like Celestia and many thanks to everyone who contributed to Celestia.

Im not a space-nerd or anything, just find it very fascinating

Im using Debian Testing, got Celestia via apt-get install celestia-glut <- It got the least dependencies and I don't use KDE or Gnome.

I really need a manual in english or something, but the html manual is offline atm and I don't have support for ms-word.

I have some question I hope you guys can help me with:

1. Is it possible to label spacestation like the ISS? You know, pressing P shows Earth, Mars and such, pressing M shows the moons. Is there a similar function for spacestations?

2. I live in Denmark, small country in Europe. I really would like to zoom all the way in on Denmark, then look out in space, as if I was standing outside and looking up. That I can do, but the Earth rotates and the Follow and Track functions doesnt help me here. I wanna stay fixed on some landscape and lookout - is that possible?

Hope somebody can help me out.
Thank you.

Newuser-guest wrote:Hi all.

First, pardon for my english, its not very good.
I really like Celestia and many thanks to everyone who contributed to Celestia.

Im not a space-nerd or anything, just find it very fascinating

I'm sorry, but that makes you a space-nerd!

Im using Debian Testing, got Celestia via apt-get install celestia-glut <- It got the least dependencies and I don't use KDE or Gnome.

I really need a manual in english or something, but the html manual is offline atm and I don't have support for ms-word.

The English HTML manual for v1.3.1 seems to be online at the moment. Try http://celestia.teyssier.org/doc/

OpenOffice is free for downloading and can read Word files. See http://www.openoffice.org/

I have some question I hope you guys can help me with:

1. Is it possible to label spacestation like the ISS? You know, pressing P shows Earth, Mars and such, pressing M shows the moons. Is there a similar function for spacestations?

Yes. Use N to select "spacecraft".

2. I live in Denmark, small country in Europe. I really would like to zoom all the way in on Denmark, then look out in space, as if I was standing outside and looking up. That I can do, but the Earth rotates and the Follow and Track functions doesnt help me here. I wanna stay fixed on some landscape and lookout - is that possible?

Yes.
Please read the "preliminary user's faq" in the Celestia Users Forum: Q/A #19.
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21807&highlight=#21807

Hope somebody can help me out.
Thank you.

I hope this helps.

I'm sorry, but that makes you a space-nerd!

Well, maybe just alitte

The English HTML manual for v1.3.1 seems to be online at the moment. Try http://celestia.teyssier.org/doc/

Thank you very much.

Please read the "preliminary user's faq" in the Celestia Users Forum: Q/A #19.
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21807&highlight=#21807

Thats awesome! It works perfektly

I hope this helps.

It sure does. Thank you very much.

Best regards

Selden>

I got one last question.
I dunno what its called, I searched for 'panorama view' but don't think thats it.

When I use the Planetorium-function I can't see the hole sky. Only a little part of it, just in rea life when looking up.
But is there a function that gives me like a paorama view? So I can see the hole sky from my fixed position without using the mouse or the keyboard arrows?

I tried with the magnetude limit down to 6.21 and that gives me almost what I want. It still doesn't cover the hole sky.

Thanks again.

Best regards

Sorry, not yet.

You can type the key . ("period" or "full stop") several times to increase the viewing angle to as much as 120 degrees, but that's the limit.

Maybe some future version of Celestia will be able to draw larger viewing angles.

Okay, thanks again