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Title: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: prometheus on September 30, 2005, 09:16:41 am

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

This is a must download for any other armchair astronomers here...  You can follow in the footsteps of all the probes and telescopes and visit just about any object in the solar system or beyond!  Ever wondered what the view looks like a million miles from the surface of Rigel, Proycon or Betalgeuse?  It's all here, and it's free software!!!

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: Sirgod on September 30, 2005, 04:37:48 pm

Quote from: prometheus on September 30, 2005, 09:16:41 am

[url]http://www.shatters.net/celestia/[/url]

This is a must download for any other armchair astronomers here...  You can follow in the footsteps of all the probes and telescopes and visit just about any object in the solar system or beyond!  Ever wondered what the view looks like a million miles from the surface of Rigel, Proycon or Betalgeuse?  It's all here, and it's free software!!!

Sweet Christ, this is too Cool. Thanks for sharing this Prom.

stephen

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: prometheus on September 30, 2005, 07:36:03 pm

The great thing is, it works on this old PC that I use exclusively for the internet, which is an old clanger with a pentium II and 96 meg in it...  It runs out of virtual memory every now and then, but not before you've explored a dozen star systems, and on my other machine with an athlon XP 2000 (clocking in at 1.7 Gigahertz) in it, it's totally sweet...

Incidentally Stephen, my musical concept recording that I promised to send you a CD of is (after a few unforseen delays) nearing completion now, so if you're still interested, I'll mail one off to you during the week...   I don't know what you'll think of it, it's kind of weird stuff, but I've had some positive reactions from the preliminary mixes of it, and I think you'll like one of the mixes with a load of Apollo samples from all the missions, that take you from the run up to Launch Commit to the return from the moon...

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: Sirgod on September 30, 2005, 07:38:59 pm

of course I'm interested in Your music.

BTW, I tried a few times to DL this program, but for some reason, It eeps coming out corrupted. If you would be so kind to Email It to me, I'd be very gratefull.

stephen

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: prometheus on September 30, 2005, 07:50:21 pm

Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on September 30, 2005, 07:38:59 pm

of course I'm interested in Your music.

BTW, I tried a few times to DL this program, but for some reason, It eeps coming out corrupted. If you would be so kind to Email It to me, I'd be very gratefull.

stephen

Absolutely...  To the Gmail address?

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: Sirgod on September 30, 2005, 08:12:35 pm

Yes sir, that would work Greatly.

stephen

Title: Re: For all the armchair astronomers here - Celestia!
Post by: prometheus on September 30, 2005, 09:10:19 pm

Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on September 30, 2005, 08:12:35 pm

Yes sir, that would work Greatly.

stephen

Roger That...  I'll get on to that now...