Are there real life exoplanets available?

[Bastian]

I`m pretty new to Celestia and have just learned about add-ons and already installed a great galaxies add-on..

Now I was wondering if there are any add-ons for exoplanets, preferably realistic ones, that have really been detected by astronomers!
Are those available?

Thanks

[selden]

They're included with Celestia.

It isn't obvious how "realistic" the surface textures are, since we've never actually seen one of them, only their effects on the star that they orbit around.

[ajtribick]

If I may indulge in some shameless self-promotion, there is the Extended Gas Giant Classification System add-on, which modifies the textures of the exoplanets incorporated in Celestia according to the various classes of exoplanet described in a paper by Sudarsky (more details available in the thread).

I forget which version of Celestia the Modify directive was introduced, you may need the latest prerelease for the add-on to work.

[Bastian]

They're included with Celestia.

Oh cool, then I just haven`t found them yet. No wonder in such a big universe I guess.. hehe. Can you name a few stars I should "visit" do find some of those planets?

[eburacum45]

The easiest way to find them is to download Chaos Syndrome's add-on, install it, then look at the file called .ssc (open it with Notepad or similar)
then find the stars with planets listed there.
Another way is to get the star names off this list;
http://www.extrasolar.net/starlisttour. ... tID=normal

I have made a little modification for my own amusement to these files on my computer, giving a few planets the names they are sometimes unofficially known by.
Here is Goldilocks, 70 Virginis b
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5295/goldilocks3qc.jpg

[selden]

If you're running the Windows version of Celestia, open the menu Navigation/Star Browser and select "With planets." It's down at the bottom.