[sac-forum] Re: Astronomy Software: Celestia

Celestia almost sounds like another version of Voyager produced by
Carina Software. Is this correct? I saw a demonstration of it at RTMC
last year. They said Voyager III for Windows would be available by the
end of July. I sent my money in June, and I still have not received it.
Stan

Paul Dickson wrote:
> 
> This is nice piece of software.  The source code is available too.  I've
> run it on my 300 MHz laptop, it works but it's very jumpy in the display.
> On 1333 MHz machine it is much smoother (and this was without hardware 3D
> acceleration support on the GeForce 2 graphics card and Seti@Home
> running).
> 
>     http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/
> 
> >From the web page:
> 
>     Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience
>     our universe in three dimensions.  Unlike most planetarium software,
>     Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth.  You can
>     travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or
>     even beyond the galaxy.  All travel in Celestia is seamless; the
>     exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of
>     scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters
>     across.  A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate
>     through the universe to the object you want to visit.
> 
>         -Paul

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