CelestiaGuru
An infrequent history of creating some Addons for Celestia
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Gaia DR2: Milky Way Open Clusters
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Gaia's Data Release 2 provides improved positions for more than 1 billion (10^9) stars. The paper "A Gaia DR2 view of the open clus...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
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A revised version of Celestia's default stars.dat , containing 114357 stars, is available at https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celest...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Interstellar travel routes
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In many SF settings, one would like to see the routes used to travel between stars. Celestia's "Asterisms" feature can be use...
Interactive maps
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Ilanthar of the Cartographers Guild has been posting some beautiful maps of his Resurgence stellar system in the threads https://www.carto...
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Large Catalogs
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Over the past few months I've been struggling with large star and galaxy catalogs, ones which typically include information for about 2 ...
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Gaia star catalog for Celestia
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The ESA's Gaia astrometric satellite has published its first Data Release, providing RA, Dec and parallax measurements for about 80% of ...
Interactive notebook: a WIP
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I'm in the process of constructing an interactive notebook for use in Celestia, using Anim8or to design its components. It's interac...
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