"Loogypicker" wrote in message
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On Jan 6, 1:21 pm, Harry wrote:
Loogypicker wrote:
On Jan 6, 10:57 am, Harry wrote:
Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:25:42 -0500, Jim wrote:
Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:45:42 -0600, thunder
wrote:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
I had forgotten about that one - I have it, but haven't used it in
quite a while.
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I just took a peek at celestia it looks like a good piece of
software.
How would you rate it against Stellarium?
Oh gosh - it's been a while. When I used it last, the base gazing
software is very cool and does what it's supposed to do. The planet
fly-bys and various space craft seem a little gimmicky to me, but I do
like the photo realistic closeups. I'm not knocking it, but I like
the plain old Stellarium package out of the box. The odd thing is I
like it better than Starry Nights which is a pretty good program for
just gazing.
I have several professional level auto-ranging programs for my
Celestron so I can track satellites, the Space Lab and the shuttle
flights automatically. Stellarium ranks right up there in terms of
graphics - in some ways it's better.
If you haven't discovered the zoom keys in stellarium yet, they are
page
up and page down.
I found it, but I haven't played with it much yet - I was bouncing
back and forth between programs comparing graphics. :)
I really like this program. For shareware, it's a good one - enough
to pay for it in my opinion.
I got a Meade goto scope for Christmas but didn't get the cable to
download satellite information yet. I have read that visible satellite
flybys are brief and occur just before sunrise. Have you had good
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Yeah, we believe you, Harry....
D'oh. Look at the headers, **** for brains...it's one of the ID
spoofers. I have not a clue what a Meade "goto" scope is. Why would I
want to waste my time and evenings looking at satellite fly-bys? It's
not like I'm SW tom or flajim or the other old farts with nothing better
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But, but......I'm filtered, remember?
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--Mike