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I have been reading the excellent scripting manual by Don Goyette. I wonder if there is a little error in the description of GOTO parameter DISTANCE.
As I understand it, the DISTANCE parameter of the GOTO command, is measured from the camera to the center of the object. The manual says:

Describes how far away from the object you want to be positioned, in units of the object's radius, plus 1. For example, if the object's radius is 10000 km, and you specify 6 for distance, you will be positioned 50000 km from the object's center.

I think the sentence should end as: "50000 km from the object's surface".

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Ben

Ben,

Reading the manual of Don also fasinated/inspired me a few years ago and I learned a lot from it

But I want to remind you the following: The manual is written for Celestia, version 1.3.1+.
and the manual itself had not been revised after that...
Since than, a lot has changed in Celestia itself (we are at v160 now and v161 will come out soon) and the documentation.

I really want to advise you to learn more about scripting by reading the "up-to-date" WIKI pages at: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Scripting#CEL_scripting

These WIKI pages are kept "up-to-date" and possible errors/bugs and/or suggested improvements will be implemented there.

Marco