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Multi-body Quasar Addon

Posted: 13.11.2007, 06:47
by charlyms
Is anyone so kind and explain the Multi-body Quasar Addon by Selden to me? How to use the ViewQuasars.html? No Quasars are shown by starting the link, why?
Kindly regards
Charlyms

Posted: 13.11.2007, 11:57
by selden
Exactly what is the name of the Zip file you downloaded and where did you get it?

Which version of Celestia are you running?
What type of computer, graphics hardware and operating system are you using?


Unfortunately, none of the Quasar Addons can work with Celestia v1.4.1. They work fine with Celestia v1.3.2 and Celestia v1.5.0pre4. Celestia v1.4.1 does not draw galaxy labels or Nebula objects when they are beyond a certain distance. These bugs have been corrected in the subsequent prerelease versions of Celestia v1.5.0.

Celestia v1.3.2 is available on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302

Celestia v1.5.0pre4 for Windows is available at http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre4.exe

If you do not change the names of any of its catalogs, the file on the MotherLode which is named quasars.zip is supposed to display the quasars as many individual dots: all of the quasars are named "."

When you select the URL named "View Quasar Labels" it enables Galaxy labels. You should see the Celestial Grid and many tiny blue dots which are the "." characters.

The Single-body Quasar Addon

Posted: 13.11.2007, 14:17
by charlyms
Hello!
Igot this Addon from here: http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/catalogs.html.

I have downloaded the newest version of celestia you proposed and try if it works, because I have 1.4.1 version indeed.
Thank??s a lot and kindly regards
charlyms


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