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I am using win2k and a radon 9000. in the new version of celestia I can’t see the moon it appears black. I do not have this problem with the old version

You neglected to say which old version of Celestia (1.2.4? 1.2.5? 1.3.0?) you were running and which new version (1.3.0? 1.3.1prerelease?). There are many.

A black (or white) object means that the surface texture was not loaded. Check to make sure that they are in the textures/lores and /medres directories and that they are readable.

i was using the version just befor. the texture is there and i can load it?

I just realized:
You're seeing the effects of the bumpmap bug that's in v1.3.0. Mercury and Mars will cause problems for you, too.

You should consider upgrading to one of the "prerelease" versions of Celestia, or wait for the official release of v1.3.1, although we don't know when that will be.

I'd suggest Celestia prerelease v1.3.1pre5, which is available at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/celestia-win32-1.3.1pre5.exe (an 11MB download)

You also will see problems with shadows cast by Saturn's rings on the planet, but those are due to bugs in ATI's graphics device drivers for their older cards. It only works on Radeon 9500 or better.

Of course, make sure you have installed the most recent graphics drivers that ATI provides on their Web site. Celestia v1.3 uses OpenGL v1.4, which is relatively new.