I have just downloaded Celestia 1.5.0 .
Now when I look for the solar system , Pluto doesnt appear as a planet . That's OK ( better than the 1.4 version).
But if I select to shown the labels of asteroids, Sedna, Quaoar, Varuna, etc appear, but Pluto doesnt appear.
If I select Pluto, its name appears as a planet .
Thank you for Celestia. Is a great program and is very useful for my students.
Octavi Plana . Catalunya.
PLUTO
oplana,
Celestia v1.5.0 is not yet finalized. The prereleases let you try out the new features but they still have bugs.
For example, Celestia has not yet been modified to use the IAU's revised object classes.
Also, Pluto's orbit around the Sun isn't being drawn because Celestia's definitions of Pluto and Charon have been changed. They now orbit around a common barycenter (called a ReferencePoint in Celestia) instead of Charon orbiting around Pluto. Unfortunately the changes to that part of Celestia's code are incomplete: the orbits of ReferencePoints aren't being drawn yet.
I hope this clarifies things a little.
Celestia v1.5.0 is not yet finalized. The prereleases let you try out the new features but they still have bugs.
For example, Celestia has not yet been modified to use the IAU's revised object classes.
Also, Pluto's orbit around the Sun isn't being drawn because Celestia's definitions of Pluto and Charon have been changed. They now orbit around a common barycenter (called a ReferencePoint in Celestia) instead of Charon orbiting around Pluto. Unfortunately the changes to that part of Celestia's code are incomplete: the orbits of ReferencePoints aren't being drawn yet.
I hope this clarifies things a little.
Selden