1. Near galaxies such as Andromeda, Triangulum and most
prominently, Sagittarius, are much too bright when viewed
from our solar system. This has been commented before in
other threads. We need to drop their apparent magnitude at
least 50%.
We really discussed this issue and a number of people
including myself and Grant have given you a clear
answer.
Leaving aside Sagittarius Dwarf, because it's special, you
see the other galaxies too bright for the simple reason
that you tune your stars too bright!
Celestia is supposed to be a realistic simulation of the
Universe based on naked eye sensitivity, and thus you
cannot have the stars visible up to 11.5 magnitude
without displaying much of the bright galaxies like
Andromeda. Andromeda has an app.magnitude of only
4.3! You have tuned your sensitivity to the stars like
viewed through a big telescope, where you also will see
bright galaxies VERY bright.
I have spent a lot of time in locking the galaxy brightness
correctly to the apparent star brightness. So I simply do
NOT accept your unfounded claims that the bright
galaxies appear too bright by 50%!
F.
