Re: Celestia, real-time 3D visualization of space
"John C." <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.freeware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 26/06/26 01:07 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:07:57 -0700 > "John C." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Celestia is a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe >> in three dimensions and runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. >> >> Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the >> surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any >> of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. >> >> All movement in Celestia is seamless. The exponential zoom feature lets >> you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters >> down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' >> interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object >> you want to visit. >> >> Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, >> galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's >> not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more >> objects. >> >> And the project is still being maintained too. >> >> Home page: https://celestiaproject.space/ >> >> Release info: https://celestiaproject.space/news.html >> >> Downloads: https://celestiaproject.space/download.html >> >> Addon information is on the downloads page. >> >> Gallery: https://celestiaproject.space/gallery.html >> >> Be sure and check out the last one. Shows what this amazing program can do. >> >> It's the best thing out there and AFAIK, the closest thing to virtually >> being able to explore outer space. >> > > If it was properly realistic it would limit you to moving at the speed of > light (but that would make it pretty tedious). Space. It's big. Oh come on now... kick in your warp drive. 80)> -- John C. No ad, CD, cripple, demo, nag, pay, pirated, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares for me please. I filter crossposts, various trolls & dizum.com. This makes ACF easier to read. Take back tech corporations from India & industry back from China.