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My galaxies wouldn't work
so i checked in the Celestia.cfg
And I had to re-name my Galaxies.dat to Galaxies_and_Clusters.dat
then it worked fine.
the name was changed in the Celestia.cfg, but not the file, in the data directory.

Was kind of hopeing to see the new Icons that Don made.

Also, on the first install box, it still says, install Celstia 1.2.4

Other than that, it is Superb.

The moon still crashes into the Earth in the year 4000.

Just set the clock to any time on or after New Year's Day 4000 and watch. It's doesn't take long, you can even see it in real time.

Aya Reiko wrote:The moon still crashes into the Earth in the year 4000.

Just set the clock to any time on or after New Year's Day 4000 and watch. It's doesn't take long, you can even see it in real time.

Just fixed this a couple minutes ago . . . The cause of the problem was rather amusing. Outside of a certain time range, I use an ellipse to approximate the orbit of a major solar system object, instead of some complex expression that accounts for all sorts of perturbations from other bodies. These complex expressions are accurate within a certain range, but tend to break down for times far in the past or future. Celestia computes an ellipse using the state vector of the object at the boundary time and the mass of the system. Instead of using the mass of the Earth-Moon system however, I was using the mass of the Sun. The Moon then behaved as you'd expect it too if the Earth's mass increased a nearly a millionfold--it plunged very quickly right toward the Earth!

--Chris

GeForce 2 Go - WinXP

I noticed that many of the Globular Cluster-type galaxies (i.e. A358, A400, A262) seem to flicker when I move around or change the camera angle, regardless of resolution or sometimes even distance.

The moon still creshes into the earth!
you sed you fixed it in the abov post!
Did you just not put it into the installer?

If this is the case then pleas post the patch