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.

Dublin Again

A return to an old project, illustrating some of the stories by C.J. Cherryh. Here's the most recent incarnation of my version of the armed merchant ship Dublin Again aproaching Pell Station.



Quite a bit of detailing will be needed before it's finished, but hopefully this is the final major redesign.

Trial

I've decided to take a break from B7 modelling and have made available another preliminary Addon for Celestia. (Adding all the illuminated windows is more than I can face right now.)

http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/b7/files/b7_trial_075.zip
(6.1MB expands to 15.5MB)

It uses some of the models shown previously to illustrate a few events in the Blake's 7 episode "Trial".
Slightly more info is available on the Web page
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/b7/index.html

Preliminary B7 Addon

I've assembled a few of the models I've mentioned into a preliminary Addon for Celestia, illustrating one event in the second season opening episode Redemption.

http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/b7/files/b7_redemption.zip (v0.5, 4 MB, expands to 9 MB) It needs a lot of improvement. Please provide suggestions.

You'll need Celestia v1.6.0 Release Candidate 1 to view it because of the way I defined the trajectory of the Liberator. The Windows version is available at
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/celestia-rc/celestia-win32-1_6_0rc1.zip (33 MegaBytes, expands to 71 MB)