About:
Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Major improvements were made to 3D visuals, including realistic scattering atmospheres, new photometric functions, and improved rendering of orbit paths. Support for the DE405 ephemeris and NASA/JPL's SPICE system was added in order to improve accuracy for demanding applications such as spaceflight trajectory visualization. Galaxy, star, and planet catalogs were all updated with the latest data.

Author:
Chris Laurel <claurel __at__ www __dot__ shatters __dot__ net> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.55/10.00 (27 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.5.0.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/150-feature-summary.html
OS X package:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-osx-1.5.0.dmg

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		MacOS X :: Cocoa, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++, Lua
[Topic]		Education, Games/Entertainment :: Simulation, Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.5.0	04-Apr-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.5.0	Major feature enhancements	04-Apr-2008 07:28
1.3.2	Major feature enhancements	08-Oct-2004 06:05
1.3.0	Major feature enhancements	17-Apr-2003 02:32
1.2.5	Major feature enhancements	14-Jan-2003 02:15
1.2.4	Major feature enhancements	03-May-2002 08:01
1.2.0	Major feature enhancements	17-Jan-2002 08:51
1.1.4	Major feature enhancements	22-Nov-2001 21:33
1.1.3	Major feature enhancements	13-Oct-2001 18:15
1.1.2	Minor feature enhancements	11-Sep-2001 06:56
1.1.1	Minor bugfixes	14-Jun-2001 05:12

 Comments

[»] Wow
by Nurikabe - Sep 12th 2003 06:02:53

Just.. Wow.

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[»] Full screen ?
by FastViper - Dec 27th 2001 12:24:02

The simulator is great!
Thank you very much for this project!

BTW: I don't know howto run Celestia in full screen mode.. (nVidia drivers)

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FastViper

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[»] Nice app.
by Andy MacKenzie - Jun 3rd 2001 00:06:20

Very nice proggie. Though Earth doesn't seem to
have any texture on it. Other than that it's
quite nice!

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[»] Re: Nice app.
by Allan Noordvyk - Jun 3rd 2001 10:49:34


> Very nice proggie. Though Earth doesn't
> seem to
> have any texture on it. Other than
> that it's
> quite nice!
Try reducing the size of your window. There seems to be a bug with the Earth surface map when enlarging the window beyond the default size.

(PS: I'll handly reporting this bug.)

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-- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan

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