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Stellarium
Harry wrote:
Loogypicker wrote: 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. . 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.... 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 to do at night.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But, but......I'm filtered, remember As I stated here, when I unpacked and started up my new iMac, I did not start up the filters I have been using. Well why don't you, we are tired of you. You foocking impostor. |
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