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I have just discovered Celestia. A wonderful and delightful program. I have always been interested in stereo vision and am ok at cross eyed & wide eyed viewing. Celestia is brilliant at creating stereo pairs of scenes for cross eyed viewing. This has probably been covered before, apologies if it has.

1 Select the scene but remember that the screen will be split verically in two. Press the Space Bar to pause the scene. Also once you are in stereo format you cannot alter Tracking, Following, Sync. etc.

2 Split the screen verticlly acheiving two identical scenes.

3 Select the LH scene and rotate it slightly to the left creating the LH picture of a stereoscopic pair. (wide eyed viewing would require rotating to the right and is difficult to view without optical help).

4 View in cross eyed fashion and release the pause by pressing the Space Bar. You can alter Speed, Clouds, Atmosphere, Orbits, Text etc. as you wish.

It is easier to do than describe provided you can develop your cross eyed viewing skills.
Saturn with Cassini in front is excellent as is the Seven Sisters where the relative depth of all the visible stars is easy to see.

I've just noticed a new addon at Motherload for a script to view celestia in 3D.
I posted this item as my first post back in 2005 and it is excellent to see that NavigatorXL has produced a celx script to automate the process. Many thanks. I didn't have the to do it.
Since then my eyesight has deteriorated so I won't be able to use it. I would, however, strongly suggest you try it, as the 3D effect is stunning and as I said before it is amazingly easy to gauge depth of stars in star fields etc.

David.