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I'm running Celestia 1.5 cvs 11/23/2006 on an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card. When I place a star at RA 266.25/ Dec -28.93/ 27730.03 lys (the Galactic Core), the star is entirely invisible. If I place the star beyond the core, in what I guess would be the eastern expanse of the MW -- Earth is in the western expanse, right? -- the star is ALSO invisible, BUT becomes visible only when viewed from certain angles. I hope that it is possible to place objects at the core or at the opposite side of the galaxy...

I've been able to place things very close to coreward on Earth's side of the core.

UPDATE: Nebula objects are entirely visible as usual both at the core and beyond.

There's a limitation in Celestia (a somewhat frustrating one...) that means you can't place a star beyond 16,000 ly from Earth. That's probably the problem. Nebulae and galaxies aren't affected by this.

Shoot. I was afraid of that. What happens when astronomy catalogues stars on the other side of the core from us?