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<b> A real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.
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Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Celestia Development Team</b>
Copyright © 2001-2020, Celestia Development Team</b>
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<b>Celestia web site:</b> <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a>
<b>Celestia web site:</b> <a href="https://celestia.space/">https://celestia.space/</a>
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<b>Celestia documentation:</b> <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html</a>
<b>Celestia documentation:</b> <a href="https://celestia.space/guides.html">https://celestia.space/guides.html</a>
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<b>Celestia WikiBook:</b> <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia</a>
<b>Celestia WikiBook:</b> <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia</a>
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<b>Celestia forums:</b> <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/">http://www.shatters.net/forum/ </a>
<b>Celestia forums:</b> <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/">https://celestia.space/forum/</a>
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The <i>Tour Guide</i> is a list of some of the more interesting objects you can visit in Celestia. Select the <i>Tour Guide</i> option in the <i>Navigation menu</i> to display the Tour Guide window. Choose a destination from the list, click the <b>Goto</b> button, and you're off.
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That covers the very basics. For a more in-depth look at Celestia and the controls available to you, download the "Celestia User's Guide" (written by Frank Gregorio), available in several languages, from: <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html</a>. This web page also includes links to the Celestia README file translated into Japanese.
That covers the very basics. For a more in-depth look at Celestia and the controls available to you, download the "Celestia User's Guide" (written by Frank Gregorio), available in several languages, from: <a href="https://celestia.space/guides.html">https://celestia.space/guides.html</a>.
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<li><a href="javascript:animatedcollapse.toggle('knownissues')">Known Issues</a>
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For up-to-the-minute answers to some common problems encountered when running Celestia, please view either the FAQ under <i>Table of Contents</i> (to the left) or take a look at the "Celestia User's FAQ" located on the Celestia User's Forum: <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/">www.shatters.net/forum</a>.
For up-to-the-minute answers to some common problems encountered when running Celestia, please view either the FAQ under <i>Table of Contents</i> (to the left) or take a look at the "Celestia User's FAQ" located on the Celestia User's Forum: <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/">celestia.space/forum</a>.
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<a name="controls"><h1>Celestia Controls</h1></a>
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This list of controls was current as of Celestia version 1.6.0. If you notice that a command is missing or incorrect, please write a message in the Celestia Bugs forum, located at: <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3</a>.
This list of controls was current as of Celestia version 1.6.0. If you notice that a command is missing or incorrect, please write a message in the Celestia Bugs forum, located at: <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=3</a>.
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<li>Disable Celestia's vertex shaders: edit celestia.cfg (with a plain text editor) to remove the # at the start of this line</li>
<span class="string"># IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ] </span>
<li>Disable 3D hardware graphics acceleration. You find that under Windows in the display properties.</li>
<li>If none of these work for you, please ask for help in the <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=15">Celestia Help Forum</a>.</li>
<li>If none of these work for you, please ask for help in the <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=15">Celestia Help Forum</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="javascript:animatedcollapse.toggle('faq19')">Celestia still crashes, draws funny stuff or is extremely slow. What can I do?</a>
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<h3>Answer:</h3>
Report the exact circumstances and details of your system, graphics hardware and software in the <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">Celestia Bugs</a> forum.
Report the exact circumstances and details of your system, graphics hardware and software in the <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">Celestia Bugs</a> forum.
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Celestia runs on many different hardware and software configurations. It is not appropriate to ask people to guess what you have. For example:
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Some of the graphics information can be found in Celestia's Help menu under <i>"OpenGL Info..."</i> Under Windows more details can be found in the Control Panel's Display Properties menu.
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You can also report bugs on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?group_id=21302&atid=121302">SourceForge bug tracker</a>; but before you do so, please check in the <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">Celestia Bugs</a> forum if it has already been reported or solved.
You can also report bugs on the <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues">GitHub bug tracker</a>; but before you do so, please check in the <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=3">Celestia Bugs</a> forum if it has already been reported or solved.
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<li>An example .CEL script is Celestia's own start.cel, which is on your computer in Celestia's main directory.</li>
<li>A .CEL Scripting Guide is available in English and German on the <a href="http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/documentation.html">Documentation Page</a> of the <a href="http://celestiamotherlode.net/">Celestia MotherLode</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/celestia_notes.html#4.0">Selden's Celestia Resources website</a> includes a list of some of the more recently added .CEL scripting commands, but they're rather cryptically organized.</li>
<li>Information can also be found in the Scripting section of the <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia#Scripting">Celestia Wikibook</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/celestia_notes.html#4.0">Selden's Celestia Resources website</a> includes a list of some of the more recently added .CEL scripting commands, but they're rather cryptically organized.</li>
<li>Information can also be found in the Scripting section of the <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia#Scripting">Celestia Wikibook</a>.</li>
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The Lua programming language is available for use in .CELX scripts. See <a href="http://www.lua.org/">http://www.lua.org/</a>.
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<li>A few example Lua scripts for Celestia are available on SourceForge at <a href="http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia/scripts/">http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia/scripts/</a>.</li>
<li>A few example Lua scripts for Celestia are available on GitHub at <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/tree/master/scripts">https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/tree/master/scripts</a>.</li>
<li>A .CELX Scripting Guide is available in English on the <a href="http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/documentation.html">Documentation Page</a> of the <a href="http://celestiamotherlode.net/">Celestia MotherLode</a>.</li>
<li>More information about CELX is available on Harald Schmidt's web site at <a href="http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/">http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/</a>.</li>
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<I>Note: Scripts may be in any folder. But it helps with your organization of your Celestia folders if you keep them in a folder named <B>/scripts/</B>.</I>
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For more information, please visit and contribute to the <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=9">Celestia Scripting Forum</a>.
For more information, please visit and contribute to the <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=9">Celestia Scripting Forum</a>.
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Grant Hutchison has provided a spreadsheet to convert TLEs into Celestia SSCs here: <a href="http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/%7Eseb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html#2">http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html#2</a>.
Grant Hutchison has provided a spreadsheet to convert TLEs into Celestia SSCs here: <a href="https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html#2">https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html#2</a>.
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Also, don't forget that Celestia models the shape of the Earth using a spheroid. The actual shape of our planet is much more complicated.
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<li><a href="javascript:animatedcollapse.toggle('faq33')">Where can I get more information about Celestia? </a>
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<h3>Answer:</h3>
A good start is the <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html">documentation on the Celestia Website</a> and the pages on the <a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/documentation.html">Celestia Motherlode documentation</a>. For example an introductory User's Guide by Frank Gregorio is available in English. Translations into German, French and a few other languages also are available. Consider providing a translation into another language yourself.
A good start is the <a href="https://celestia.space/guides.html">documentation on the Celestia Website</a> and the pages on the <a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/documentation.html">Celestia Motherlode documentation</a>. For example an introductory User's Guide by Frank Gregorio is available in English. Translations into German, French and a few other languages also are available. Consider providing a translation into another language yourself.
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An other good place to look for or ask for additional information is the <a href="http://shatters.net/forum/">Celestia Forum</a>. You'll find lots of friendly people there. <a href="http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/#2.1.2">Selden Ball's website</a> has pointers to additional documentation on catalog files (SSC, STC, DSC), planet surface textures, etc. Also you can find information in the <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">Celestia WikiBook</a>.
An other good place to look for or ask for additional information is the <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/">Celestia Forum</a>. You'll find lots of friendly people there. <a href="https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/#2.1.2">Selden Ball's website</a> has pointers to additional documentation on catalog files (SSC, STC, DSC), planet surface textures, etc. Also you can find information in the <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">Celestia WikiBook</a>.
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On the <a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/">Celestia Motherlode</a> there are also many other Celestia resources and addons for download.
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<h3>Answer:</h3>
Get the most recent Celestia installation file from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21302">SourceForge</a>. They have many mirrors for best performance. Official prerelease versions are announced in the Celestia Web Forum in its <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=2">Users Forum</a>.
Get the most recent Celestia installation file from <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/releases">GitHub</a>. <!--They have many mirrors for best performance.--> Official prerelease versions are announced in the Celestia Web Forum in its <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=4">Development Forum</a>.
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The developers maintain a list of all new functionality and bug fixes in the Celestia <a href="http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>, which is located at SourceForge. Look at the top-most entry in the list, to the right of where it says "Revision #.##", click the "(view)" link to display the most recent ChangeLog.
The developers maintain a list of all new functionality and bug fixes in the Celestia <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/blob/master/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>, which is located at GitHub. Look at the top-most entry in the list, to the right of where it says "Revision #.##", click the "(view)" link to display the most recent ChangeLog.
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Cel:// URLs run the copy of Celestia that is in the folder named Celestia. If you want to change back to using your old Celestia that way, just rename the directories again: rename <I>Celestia</I> to be <I>Celestia160</I> and rename <I>Celestia151</I> to be <I>Celestia</I>.
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Also, please take a look at <a href="http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/%7Eseb/addon-intro.html">http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/addon-intro.html</a> for a description of how to organize your addons so they can be moved easily.
Also, please take a look at <a href="https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html">https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html</a> for a description of how to organize your addons so they can be moved easily.
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<a name="resources"><h1>Celestia resources</h1></a>
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<b>Celestia Web Site:</b> <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a>
<b>Celestia Web Site:</b> <a href="https://celestia.space/">https://celestia.space/</a>
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<b>Celestia User Forums:</b> <a href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/">http://www.shatters.net/forum/</a>
<b>Celestia User Forums:</b> <a href="https://celestia.space/forum/">https://celestia.space/forum/</a>
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<b>Selden's List of Resources for Celestia:</b> <a href="http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/%7Eseb/celestia/">http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/</a>
<b>Selden's List of Resources for Celestia:</b> <a href="https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/">https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/</a>
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<b>Celestia Wikibook:</b> <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia</a>
<b>Celestia Wikibook:</b> <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia">https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia</a>
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<b>Celestial Matters Website and Forums:</b> <a href="http://www.celestialmatters.org/">http://www.celestialmatters.org/</a> - <a href="http://forum.celestialmatters.org/">http://forum.celestialmatters.org/</a>
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<b>Celestia Motherlode:</b> <a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/">http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/</a>
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<b>Celestia Bug Tracking (SourceForge.net):</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=121302&amp;group_id=21302&amp;func=browse">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=121302&amp;group_id=21302&amp;func=browse</a>
<b>Celestia Bug Tracking (GitHub.com):</b> <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues">https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues</a>
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<b>Celestia Feature Requests (SourceForge.net):</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=371302&amp;group_id=21302&amp;func=browse">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=371302&amp;group_id=21302&amp;func=browse</a>
<b>Celestia Feature Requests (GitHub.com):</b> <a href="https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues">https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues</a>
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<b>Chris Laurel</b>
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<a href="mailto:claurel@gmail.com">claurel@gmail.com</a>
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<a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a>.
<a href="https://celestia.space/">https://celestia.space/</a>.
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Special thanks go to all Celestia users who submit bug reports, suggestions, and fixes. Celestia wouldn't be the program it is today, without their help.