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DESCRIPTION
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. 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 travel 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.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.1 is a bug fix and internationalization update. The new package includes more complete translations along with glyph sets for Russian, Chinese, and Japanese.

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
  • Made Lua os functions available from celx scripts when access policy is "ask"
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.


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Developer:Chris Laurel
Downloads:28,309
  - Version d/l:2,909
Education:Science
License:Free
Date:05 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
Celestia User Reviews (31 posts)Write A Review
Jan 30 2008
*****

MICHAEL A.  For any people who have ever found that jumping around to different places in Google Earth was an addictive adventure, this is even better...  (Version 1.5)

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Jan 29 2008
*****

ENRICO NENCINI  Awesome software. AND free. Tested on PPC and Intel (leopard): works seamlessly.  (Version 1.5)

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Jan 29 2008
*****

JAZZJOHANNES  Brilliant, I love the complete StarTrek TNG add-on.  (Version 1.5)

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Jan 29 2008
*****

TICE  This app is great. I used it since the early days and it still gets me. Wonderful work. Only the navigation could be more intuitive (i.e. the arrows left and right could change the direction instead of turning and up and down shouldn't be opposite).

Anyway, thanks for this great piece of freeware! : )  (Version 1.5)

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