Celestia 1.5.1

Publisher's Description:

Celestia is a real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, it 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 travel in it 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.

Latest Changes:

• Added fonts for Russian, Chinese, and Japanese
• Updated translations
• Fixed date formatting for non-UTF8 locales
• Fixed crash for dates prior to JD -1.5 when local format is used
• Fixed star rendering for Macs with ATI graphics hardware (worked around a driver bug in point sprite support.)
• Fixed star glare clipping bug
• Fixed bug that caused some stars to be drawn untextured
• Fixed faster/slower options in the Windows time menu to adjust time by 10x instead of 2x
• Fixed translation of time acronyms DST and STD
• Use localized versions of start script, guide, demo, license, and controls file from locale directory
• Fixed Windows 98/ME input problem; most keyboard commands weren't working on the OSes
• Made Lua os functions available from celx scripts when access policy is "ask"

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Banquo	Apr 25, 2008
Version:	1.5.1
This is a great program, my only complaint is that it will not remember the graphics settings you choose. It launches in a window every single time and I have to go set the resolution and color depth. If there actually is a way to force it to remember I'd be thankful if someone could tell me.
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Reviewer:	Jerrymiah	Feb 29, 2008
Version:	1.5.0
I just wish there was a Vista 64 version of this wonderful program
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Reviewer:	hemu_u	Feb 16, 2007
Version:	1.4.1
Very good software. You may also want to add Winstars 2.0 and Stellarium which make up TOP 3 in this field!
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Reviewer:	gerzean	Mar 24, 2006
Version:	1.4.1
Absolutely the best astronomy app I've seen. I wish more people knew about this, although it's possible Google might expand its Earth program to include the solar system, maybe even the galaxy, making this obsolete. Til then, play with this. Nice app. Small size, great graphics, very flexible. The learning curve is a little above average, but once you get the hang of it, it's great. PS: Check out the Motherlode for add-ons. You can put Star Wars and Star Trek ships in orbit, and watch 'em in 3D!
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Reviewer:	Blue_Horse	May 29, 2003
Version:	1.2.5
If you are interested in astronomy and/or SF&SF then you will probably love this program as much as I do. However, do visit their home site as there is a Celestia v1.3.0 released on 16 Apr 2003, versions for the MAC, documents, add-ons, a gallery, forum, and a version for those who have a video card less than 16 megs of memory all available from there. A GEM! And amazingly enough it is FREEware!
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