Simplified VLA telescope model

Here's a revised version of the VLA model. For some reason I thought the telescopes had a 4-point support instead of a 3-point support.


http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/files/vla-v1.zip
(260KB, expands to about 1.5MB)

See also

http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/vla.html

DSN telescope addon available!

An addon for Celestia is now available which displays the model telescope. For details, see http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/paper_dsn.html

3D "Paper" telescope

For fun, I decided to try to simulate making a paper model using a 3D modeling program. I haven't tried to make it perfect, so it looks like it was cut out of paper rather poorly.

I'll probably spend a little more time on it to make the periscope tubes look more realistic -- that is, getting the the paper diagram to be drawn on them properly.




Added later:

The model is available as an Addon to Celestia at
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/paper_dsn.html

ISS Wallpapers

This is one of the pictures in a collection of 27 1920x1200 wallpapers which I have uploaded to DeviantArt at http://celestiaguru.deviantart.com/#/d31a4dp

The collection shows the progressive assembly of the International Space Station.

Sorry: no new models

I hadn't realized that it had been so long since I last posted here. My life has been busy in other ways, but I hope I'll be able to create some new models and Addons for Celestia in the not too distant future.