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I'm looking for a way to view constellations from earth. Specifically, I'd like to view the northern hemisphere from Atlanta, GA. I'm enrolled in an Astronomy course and this view would be helpful in the course.

Is this something I can do with Celestia?

Chuck,

The procedure to do this is described in the "Preliminary User's FAQ", which is a "sticky" near the top of the Celestia Users Forum.

See Q/A # 19:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... ght=#21807

Selden,

Perfect, I've got it working. Is there a similar FAQ for orbits? I want to look at the Terrestrial and Jovian orbits from a distance.

Chuck

Chuck,

Not really. I just turn on orbit display, select the sun and back away.

If you haven't already done so, you should consider reading the Users Guide.

http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/documentation.html

Selden,

Went through the manual a few days ago. Look at it again this morning, before my faq posting. I've been able to get the view I asked you about, but It's not real intuitive. I though there was another way to get to the orbit view.

I'm using a Mac and it appears that menus work a little different from the documentation. The documentation appears to be written for a windows interface and perhaps the menus aren't the same.

Thanks for your help.

Chuck