post your Celestia pictures here.

[pure_goth_fangs]

These are my first pictures I have taken on Celestia.
Tell me what you think. I would also like to see your pictures too.

[Hungry4info]

Tell me what you think. I would also like to see your pictures too.

Interesting multigalactic shots.
You can find many pictures submitted by other Celestia users on the "Post your Celestia pictures" thread, browsing the previous pages and such. Many of them are really quite exquisite. Unfortunately, I've little talent for taking good Celestia pictures.

It would have probably been better to post these in the already existant pictures thread. That's what it's there for.

[danielj]

I didn??t find the other topic.Here is Itokawa:
http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=itokawamd8.jpg

and the .ssc I did:

This file contains the orbital elements in Celestia's SSC format.
# for the asteroid 5535 Itokawa
#
# The orbital information was obtained from
# JPL's Horizons ephemeris service.
# by Selden Ball seb+cel@lns.cornell.edu
#
"Itokawa" "Sol" # 25143Itokawa
{
Class "asteroid"
Mesh "itokawa1.cmod"
Texture "asteroid.jpg"
Radius 0.535
RotationPeriod 12
Albedo 0.53
EllipticalOrbit
#2454400.500000000 = A.D. 2007-oct-27 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
# EC= 6.321411145468719E-02 QR= 2.072962302576778E+00 IN= 4.246903877469955E+00
# OM= 1.207049523775864E+02 W = 8.711717889477436E+00 Tp= 2.453113564767820E+06
# N = 699.08936E-01 MA= 2.003909705534291E+02 TA=-1.619578194124551E+02
# A = 2.212845355512107E+00 AD= 2.352728408447437E+00 PR= 1.202333709319282E+03
#
{
Period 5.556e+02
SemiMajorAxis 2.212845355512107E+00
Eccentricity 28.01560E-02
Inclination 1.62202E+00
AscendingNode 0.6905E+02
ArgOfPericenter 162.78510E+00
MeanAnomaly 294.502
Epoch 2454400.5
}
}

[Hungry4info]

Of curiosity, where can one download that Itokawa model?

[eburacum45]

I would like to download that model too.

Here is something a bit different:
A rotating open air habitat, as described by Forrest Bishop
http://www.orionsarm.com/movies/Bishop3.wmv

this will be included in the latest update to the Orion's Arm Universe, which will be hosted on the OA Site itself (although I might put a copy on the Motherlode too). This should have about a thousand planets, moons and spacecraft to explore.

[danielj]

It??s in the same place of the model of Eros:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celestia/asteroids/

[eburacum45]

Thanks for that.
Here is an image of Itokawa asteroid being visited by a new OA spacecraft, a 'solar moth' made by Felipe Brando.
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2145/itokawaos7.jpg

[danielj]

Mercury,using the new map of Steve Albers.Based in Messenger recent passage:
http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... gerfh0.jpg
And the unseen face of Mercury:
http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... uryuz7.jpg

[eburacum45]

I have made a quick Green Mars texture today; it has oceans only about half as deep as the ones on Don's excellent textures, but it is closer to the way it is depicted in Orion's Arm history;
http://www.orionsarm.com/worlds/mars.jpg

[Chuft-Captain]

Very nice texture eburacum.

The only criticism I have is of the atmosphere. To me, it seems to be a little too much purple, and perhaps should be not so high. ie. could be a little more subtle.

Very nice overall though!

Do you plan to make this available for download?

CC

[eburacum45]

I'm not happy with the atmosphere colour- really, it should be sandy coloured, I suppose. But the height might be not un-reasonable; the scale height of a Martian terraformed atmosphere would be quite high compared to Earth's.
We will make this available for download soon- and we are working on an Earth texture for 500 years in the future too.

[Reiko]

Earthrise
Moon textures by john Van Vliet

[Chuft-Captain]

But the height might be not un-reasonable; the scale height of a Martian terraformed atmosphere would be quite high compared to Earth's.

I'd go along with that, given the reduced radius and escape velocity.
Looking forward to the final product.

[cartrite]

Remember Celestia 1.3.2? Here are some screen shots using 1.3.2 with some newer textures.









cartrite

[bh]

Heh... slightly too many stars there cartrite.. earth textures look amazing...

[cartrite]

Heh... slightly too many stars there cartrite.. earth textures look amazing...

That's that 2 million star databsae that used to work with 1.3.2 and automag maxed. I think there was a version that worked with 1.4.1 but I don't think there is one for 1.5? Is there?
cartrite

[rthorvald]

I think there was a version that worked with 1.4.1 but I don't think there is one for 1.5? Is there?
cartrite

The two million db on the Motherlode works fine with 1.5.

- rthorvald

[cartrite]

I think there was a version that worked with 1.4.1 but I don't think there is one for 1.5? Is there?
cartrite

The two million db on the Motherlode works fine with 1.5.

- rthorvald

Cool. I'll have to check it out.

[eburacum45]

I'm rehashing most of the old models and textures for the Orion's Arm universe, and will soon place it all online for download- totalling several hundred megs. One planet I have upgraded is Sisyphos the chthonian planet: now it has moving clouds and a proper night texture.

Here is a film of the new model- you might be more interested in the labels in the background, which indicate where the various Orion's Arm worlds are located in the Inner sphere as they move across Sisyphos' sky.
http://www.orionsarm.com/movies/sisyphos.wmv

I have also uploaded another experimental movie showing my current wormhole model- remember there are no lensing effects possible in Celestia, so the distorting of light paths by the curved spacetime in the hole is simulated using moving textures.
http://www.orionsarm.com/movies/wormhole6.wmv

This movie is a little squeezed in the horizontal direction for an unknown reason.

[eburacum45]

This image is all computer generated, except for the cirrus clouds (which came from a photo on Wikipedia)
I used Celestia (my Orbital model) and Terragen2 for the ground and the cumulus clouds. Terragen2 does some nice 3d clouds now but it takes ages to render...