Old Pictures from Celestia (locked)

[PlutonianEmpire]

Anyone seen those "mayhem" commercials from the AllState company?

I named two stars in a binary system, the same one as the Binary planet I've previously posted, after them.

Chaos_Mayhem.jpg

[t00fri]

My recent Celestia.Sci additions displayed in Celestia-Qt (SVN):

16k colored Chang'e 2 moon:
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=425

with official 32k LRO-LOLA normalmap
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... on_id=1549

and Nick_Risinger MilkyWay.
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=423

Shader star patch by ChrisL(/ VESTA@ASTOS):
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16031

[Click on image by all means!]

moon.Sci.jpg

Fridger

[John Van Vliet]

" Magrathea" - open for business , sort of

well i am just having some fun with a fractal formula

[ajtribick]

Try decreasing the scale on those features a bit and change the colours, it might make a nice Europa-like ice moon.

[PlutonianEmpire]

Toned down the intensity of the lavender hues I used for Belle Hades' sunsets. With the original values, the sky was completely dark WAY too soon after the primary had set. With the new values, the sky at sunset a bit more realistic, with a better twilight time.

lavender18.png

[Reiko]

The next project of bdfd : Makus III with USS Excalibur v2 (with bump and specular).

USS Excalibur.jpg

What size is that in comparison to a galaxy class?

[Reiko]

Hi Reiko,

Sorry jtk, but I can now answer because I've got a login.

Here are Excalibur v2's specifications which I've found :
length : 934 m (+31% more than Galaxy)
Width : 401 m (-13%) => saucer not circular
Height : 144 m (-26%) => vessel without neck.
Decks : 40

USS Excalibur v2.jpg

why ?

Ok thanks. I wanted to know because I like to scale all of the ships.

[mr_a500]

Here are some screenshots (Celestia 1.6.1 on G5 PowerMac):

An attempt at reproducing the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise photo (Earth VT by jestr, Moon VT by JohnVV):


Apollo 11 (awesome model by ElChristou):


Tie Fighter (excellent model by James R. Bassett, Milky Way by Fridger/Nick Risinger)


... and a bunch of 2001 screenshots using the unbelievably detailed models & scenes by Linuxman:
Orion entering space station:


"Oh look, a black cuboid! Let's touch it."


"Come on HAL, stop being a jerk and open the damn door!"


A floating pen on the moonbus:

[mr_a500]

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[Starman17]

I'm a bit new to Celestia, although I did experiment a bit with a portable version about a year ago. It looks good even just out of the box with no extensions.

[W0RLDBUILDER]

I'm a bit new to Celestia, although I did experiment a bit with a portable version

portable version

portable version

portable version

You don't need a portable version of Celestia. Use the official installer to put it on a flash drive, CD, or anywhere else and it can be moved to another computer just by moving the (on Windows) Program Files/Celestia.

[mr_a500]

"There goes the moonbus pen. Who left the airlock open?"

[mr_a500]

@Starman17

You should check out this model of the ISS:
http://celestiasws.free.fr/ISS/ISS.html

[Starman17]

I'm a bit new to Celestia, although I did experiment a bit with a portable version

portable version

portable version

portable version

You don't need a portable version of Celestia. Use the official installer to put it on a flash drive, CD, or anywhere else and it can be moved to another computer just by moving the (on Windows) Program Files/Celestia.

OK, thanks for the head's up.

[Starman17]

@Starman17

You should check out this model of the ISS:
http://celestiasws.free.fr/ISS/ISS.html

Thanks for the link, I can't see the ISS but I can see a lot of 2001 A Space Odyssey stuff. It all looks good though.

[Starman17]

It took me a while to figure out that I had to turn the clock back to find Mir.

[John Van Vliet]

a few ISS/Earth desktop backgrounds
1920x1080

[Starman17]

@john Van Vliet,

Those images of the ISS look fantastic. Are they screenshots of an available Celestia plug-in?

[selden]

The 2009 high resolution version of the ISS for Celestia by Linuxm@n is available for downloading on the Web page http://celestiasws.free.fr/ISS/ISS.html

Although he's working on it, a more recent version of the model does not yet seem to be publicly available.
A set of "wallpaper" images showing the construction of the ISS, made using his models, is available on Deviant Art at http://celestiaguru.deviantart.com/#/d31a4dp

[bh]

Yes... it's a fantastic model... puts my meagre effort in the trash...heh.

My poor mac won't run it though...grrr.