Cool little space program

[Nortilus (Josh)]

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

I thought it was cool. Check it out. You can navigate around the galaxy and stuff.

[Howzat (Phil)]

sweet

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Sounds great but 49 minutes 20 seconds to download it. It will have to wait till our town has broadband. I have stuck it in favourites so I don't lose the address.

Thanks.

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Yes it's very nice if you get it installed properly and you have a well supported 3D accelerated video card. There are extras to download like some very detailed (HUGE) maps for some of the planets, esp. ours; lots of small objects too (asteroids spacecraft/junk...). Flying around in the solar system is a lot of fun!

[Vermin (Tom)]

I've tried it before, with some success. It would occasionally crash my graphics card.

[toetoe (Peter)]

Not a bad little program, i sat back and let the demo take me for a tour around, quite entertaining.

[mch62 (Mark)]

I have posted this before but here it is again for any one wanting astronomicl programs .Some are free ware others share.

http://astrotips.com/Downloads+index...ad-cid-2.phtml

Mark

[toetoe (Peter)]

For someone like myself just getting into all of this, that web site
http://astrotips.com/Downloads+inde...oad-cid-2.phtml
is a great source of info for everyone in this hobby, thanks Mark.

[mch62 (Mark)]

Glad it is helpful for you.
I have download lots of things from it and some are very useful tools others are more of a gimmic but fun.

Mark

[toetoe (Peter)]

It`s a good starting point tho.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Great site thanks Mark !

I found just the thing I was looking for
DarkSkies1.14 gives me a graphical calendar for planning future dark sky observing

[mch62 (Mark)]

Bet it does not take in to consideration Melbournes weather patterns.