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I have successfully night textured the moon by modifying the solarsys data file and providing the image file edited in PhotoShop. However, after I put several small asteroids (moons...phobos and deimos) in orbit around it and wanted to night texture them using the same methods used on the moon, I gave it a try but no dice. The night side remains pitch black on the mesh object asteroids.

Can I "NightTexture" mesh objects? I hope so.



Do the graphics files for night textures have any naming restrictions?

Sorry, but no. Night textures do not work on Mesh objects.

That and similar limitations are described on the Web page
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/textures.html