Favorite Celestia Views (a cel://URL Repository)

[symaski62]

Oh what was I thinking. It is the last line of the Controls Help. Either Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert will do it. It places the url in your clipboard, then you can place it on your address line in your browser to test it. Thus, your favorite becomes:

cel://Follow/Sol:1998%20KY26/2015-06-27 ... 39831&lm=0

^^ "%20"

[Hoover]

Thanks symaski62. Will 1.4 put the %20's in for us?

[Juan Marino]

Close stars to Earth:

cel://SyncOrbit/Sol:earth/2003-12-04T04 ... 6407&lm=65

Pleiades

cel://SyncOrbit/Alcyone/2005-08-22T22:1 ... 37139&lm=0

Hyades

cel://SyncOrbit/TET1%20Tau/2004-07-26T1 ... 6935&lm=20

Bye frieds

[DonAVP]

Thought this looked nice. Venus is in the lower right of the screen.

cel://Follow/Sol:Earth:Moon/2006-05-10T04:30:33.48789?x=7tosoWKFvTmzDA&y=Aofy2B+n5P///////////w&z=u3MnB0xI7hsM&ow=0.835748&ox=0.143285&oy=0.474555&oz=-0.236203&select=Sol:Earth:Moon&fov=32.017933&ts=1.000000&ltd=0&rf=40851&lm=0

Now here is something really really strange. Back away with the end key. You vedoe card is not being cooked.

cel://Follow/Sol/2004-03-28T07:26:15.21381?x=AAAhhZGEoBGmDA&y=GmIgQSRVAQ&z=VaoY0XKP50YD&ow=0.754162&ox=-0.001619&oy=0.656683&oz=0.001860&select=Sol&fov=0.016601&ts=1.000000&ltd=0&rf=40839&lm=49152

Binary Stars orbiting each other.

cel://Freeflight/2006-06-04T12:58:23.58341?x=AIAAdHGt+CnqmFY&y=AGDa7CQQ1WaV2AEB&z=AGCCR5u9TxzsuaL9/////w&ow=0.784756&ox=0.243625&oy=0.503294&oz=0.267397&select=HIP15776&fov=31.813145&ts=1000000.000000&ltd=0&rf=40855&lm=49154

[Reenen]

Sync Orbit Earth at North Pole looking up:
cel://SyncOrbit/Sol:Earth/2004-05-19T20:13:54.95722?x=YyYR2GKDB3a1DA&y=KaLRiHbFbQ&z=kRcmzk4bSbkN&ow=0.695650&ox=-0.449311&oy=0.309233&oz=-0.467511&track=Polaris&select=Polaris&fov=84.854164&ts=1000.000000<d=0&rf=1183&lm=2

Hi,

I know nothing of stars, and not much about celestia, but I liked this view, except I am from the southern hemisphere.

What I want is a view that shows me what I can see (approximately) from my backyard. So similar to this view, except not on the north pole looking up, but in cape town (south africa) looking up. (So I could at least know the stars that I can see somewhat)

Could anyone post a link for that (or help me to set it up)?

Cape town (according to Google Earth) is 18?°30' E, and 33?°54' S.

[Chuft-Captain]

What you could do is create an object (perhaps call it "Reenen") and then place it at your latitude/longitude and altitude.
You can then GOTO this object whenever you like
The key part is the LongLat attribute: (and if you're any good at modelling you can even create and associate a model of yourself with it!)
eg.

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"Reenen" "Sol/Earth"
{
...
Radius 0.001   # Assuming you're 2m tall
....
LongLat [ 172.5016 -45.3456 1.5 ]  # eg. 1500 metres altitude, substitute your own values.
...
}


Read the SSC Guide here: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... ation.html


P.S. Here's me a few minutes ago :

[Reenen]

Ok, got it... but now how do I stay there, and look right up?

At the moment I don't rotate... the world rotates under me.

[Chuft-Captain]

Press "Y" to sync orbit, (actually you shoudn't need to do this if you've used the LongLat method I described)

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"Reenen" "Sol/Earth"
{
Class "Spacecraft"
Radius   0.001
LongLat   [18.5 -33.9 0.001 ]
Orientation   [213.9 1 0 0]      
RotationOffset   18.5
}

The sequence from startup (assuming you've named it "Reenan"):
<ENTER>
ree
<tab>
<ENTER>
G

... then use right-mouse and drag to change your viewpoint.

[Reenen]

Yup... and press "*" to look away from earth.

But how do I do that in the script?

[Chuft-Captain]

What script?

That's the first time you've mentioned a script.

Read the CEL Scripting Guide at the link I gave you earlier.

Also, there's lots of useful information which should help you at Selden Ball's Celestia pages: http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/

[Reenen]

Well, I didn't (and don't) know how to create an object.

So I figured you've got to open one of those .cel files. I opened "start.cel", and well, they kinda explained how to get you to your own location.

And entering the code you gave me gave me an error. (into the script)

So I just used the "gotolonglat" thingimabob in the new start script (I did not overwrite the old one).

EDIT: Ok, found the "sync orbit"... Use Synchronous {} when you select earth. (Before you select your langitude - dunno if it matters)

Now I just need to know how not to look into the earth's crust, but into the stars above.

[Chuft-Captain]

OK,

It looks like you misunderstood from the beginning.

Here's a step by step...
In C:/Program Files/Celestia, you will see a folder called "extras".
1. In that folder, create a new folder called anything you like, lets say "Reenan"

2. Go to the "Reenan" folder and create a new text file.
Open it with Wordpad or any text editor, and cut and paste the following into it:

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"Reenen" "Sol/Earth"
{
Class "Spacecraft"
Radius   0.001
LongLat   [18.5 -33.9 0.001 ]
Orientation   [213.9 1 0 0]     
RotationOffset   18.5
}

Save it.
Rename the textfile to something like "Reenan.ssc"

That's your object defined at the right location.

You can now restart Celestia and follow the instructions I gave earlier...

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ENTER
ree      (you should see "Reenan" at the bottom of the screen. )
TAB     (to autocomplete)
ENTER   This selects Reenan.
G           This takes you to Reenan.


Then once you are there, reposition until you can see the sky and select any star above the horizon by clicking on it, and press "C" to center that star in the view.

You will find all the same commands in The Cel Scipting Guide, so if you want to do this automatically at startup, you can. All the keyboard commands I've mentioned also have equivalent script commands.

You're on the right track by writing a new start.cel.

[Reenen]

Ahhh... I understood you... I just didn't know how.

What does the Orientation do?

So I was thinking of basically creating a "bookmark" of myself.

[Hoover]

Hi All,

I liked this image of the Transit of Saturn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of ... er_planets

But I can't see the moons of Saturn as they have on the image shown.

cel://PhaseLock/Uranus/Sol/2669-04-08T02:43:23.30269?x=BMK3DA/PI9JzDQ&y=ipHuV1hOUML8/////////w&z=7fd9jmIKHxb+&ow=-0.844686&ox=-0.136309&oy=0.273982&oz=-0.439157&select=Uranus&fov=0.045113&ts=1.000000&ltd=0&rf=40339&lm=49152

[Hoover]

Also on the same page they had the date of the Transit of Saturn from Neptune in 2061.

To see this one all you have to do is live a long time and hitch a ride on a ship to Neptune. Or you can see it now via the link.

cel://PhaseLock/Neptune/Sol/2061-05-29T18:05:23.71915?x=aF/C6HwlFr8SDQ&y=ac8jj4sbrXv0/////////w&z=/b7p2MW5BOgv/v///////w&ow=-0.028180&ox=0.979895&oy=0.177379&oz=0.086881&select=Sol&fov=0.025121&ts=1.000000&ltd=0&rf=40403&lm=49156

[marjinalhakan]

I have yet have new to be Cont.
A little space in the circuit,

Sharing Rep.Url. and program for thank you
See You, By

[PlutonianEmpire]

This view of antarctica at 1 hour per second. The time is paused so you'll need to unpause it (pressing the spacebar).

cel://SyncOrbit/Sol:Earth/2008-11-17T07 ... lm=0&ver=2

If you set it to northern summer, you can see the sun as Earth rotates.

[PlutonianEmpire]

Here's something people with widescreen moniters might enjoy:

A fictional planet I added to the Sol system does a small celestial "dance" in the sky seen from Earth:
cel://Follow/Sol:Earth/2131-04-30T14:03:51.26048?x=AIUiH5pedvX//////////w&y=gLMSNqmLFgI&z=gNvLr0Jn0Qo&ow=0.917405&ox=0.0648613&oy=0.333845&oz=-0.206663&select=Sol:Earth&fov=27.075&ts=1e+006&ltd=0&p=1&rf=1873815&lm=4098&tsrc=0&ver=3

When the Field of View is maximized, you can see the dance linked above is part of a much larger "dance":
cel://Follow/Sol:Earth/2130-05-01T07:59:30.33113?x=AIUiH5pedvX//////////w&y=gLMSNqmLFgI&z=gNvLr0Jn0Qo&ow=0.970114&ox=0.0241577&oy=0.117351&oz=-0.211006&select=Sol:Earth&fov=122.867&ts=1e+006&ltd=0&p=1&rf=1873879&lm=4098&tsrc=0&ver=3

Just copy the .zip contents to the "extras" directory, and then you'll be able to see the added planet. The links will work with or without the added planet. You will need to unpause the simulation. The planet is from a sci-fi series of novels from the 1930's.

[John Van Vliet]

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[surket]

I have been trying to reproduce some of these views that people have posted to no avail -- apart from the first one (looking up the north pole) by Don. All others produce a dark sky with a few stars. And the time in them is stopped in all of them. Setting to real time or speeding it up make no difference. For example, I clicked on the Hubble link (again by Don) which is define as:

c e l : / / Follow/Sol:Earth:Hubble/2003-06-25T22:57:06.83447?x=Je6A0PC+A8W+DA&y=y9MJeeThFA&z=MAZ9ltFNqQYQ&ow=0.720340&ox=0.062928&oy=0.688935&oz=0.050195&select=Sol:Earth:Hubble&fov=74.854973&ts=0.000000&ltd=0&rf=403&lm=0

When nothing happened I did CTRL+C and this is what I get:

c e l : / / Follow/Sol:Earth:Hubble/2003-06-25T22:57:06.83447?x=AACA7IDjTqG9DA&y=zoE5R3BBHg&z=AM8yhNzXj+3//////////w&ow=0.72034&ox=0.062928&oy=0.688935&oz=0.050195&select=Sol:Earth:Hubble&fov=74.855&ts=0&ltd=0&p=0&rf=403&lm=0&tsrc=0&ver=3

which is quite different from the original.

I must be doing something wrong, but I do not know what.

Ben.