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Stellarium
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. . 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 experience viewing satellites?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeah, we believe you, Harry.... |
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