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Hay,

1st post from France, sorry for my poor english/us language...

I'am under Linux Ubuntu Breezy (debian based) and I have installed celestia 1.4.1 with scrip installer : celestia-gtk-1.4.1.x86.package.

No errrors during installation or after.

Celestia works OK before installing any adds-on.

Graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce 6200 128 MB of video memory
CPU : AMD Athlon 2000 XP
OpenGl in celestia says : 4 simultaneous textures and size : 4096

So, I think my install and config are ready to use celestia.

But, the problems are :

I have installed some adds-on like earth spaceship, like the simple "Atlantis". After installation, at 1st boot of celestia, Atlantis is visible, wonderful.
But after second ou third reboot of celestia, Atlantis is invisible.

I have the same problem with :
-The Moon [4Kmoon] ! I have lose the moon, arggg !

Some adds_on never works :
- Apollo 11 : never seem it.
- Cassini_Huygns_Landed_CMOD : never seem it.

But I can see without any problems :

- rthorvalds_sun
- th_wired_earth
- M83

I have read the install text !!!!

Also, impossible to see spacecraft's name after second boot of celestia !!!

I use Stellarium, another wonderfull soft and WW2D
I think Celstia I very great, but it's a little bit hard to use it.....

I have read some french doc on celestia, no answer....

If somebody should help me, It will be very nice.

Thank a lot.

Some of your problems may be due to the fact that some spacecraft have Begin and End dates (so they only appear at their historically significant dates). eg. Apollo 11 only exists for a few days in early July of 1969 (if memory serves me correctly)

You'll need to check the definition of the object in the appropriate SSC file for each add-on and set your date within the Begin-End dates.

Check also: spacecraft.ssc in the Celestia/data folder.

Check your render options.

If you use Cel:// URLs from a Web page,
they turn off and on Render Options that you might not expect. Celestia remembers Render Options when you exit and uses those values when you start.

That's right !!! The time is important inded! Sorry.

But I have always lost the Moon and ISS in 2006, and that's not a date problem I think

I 'm looking for a solution.

Thank.