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Thank you for the update Janus. Are the missing libraries something I can go back to the people who modified 1.4.1 and enquire about? If you let me know a little more of exactly what I should ask for, I have no problem going back to them and asking. Your friend's proposed home planetarium sounds int...

Great. A mobile version of Celestia would be fantastic too, as plenty of people would download and play with it (although there are SO MANY astronomy apps already out there). You can even have a paid version with advertising removed, which would be excellent for the developers who have worked so har...

Hi everyone

I hope everyone is well.

I'm just wondering how the spherical mirror version of Celestia is coming along?

It would be BRILLIANT if it was available by the time schools begin to invite mobile planetariums back

Regards

Mario

Thank you, I will let Bourke know!

Just a quick hello to everyone working on adding spherical mirror projection capability to Celestia. I hope you're all well and are looking after yourselves at this difficult time. Also, I thought you might be interested in a few comments about Celestia and Stellarium that Paul Bourke (the inventor ...

@Janus I think originally it was created for Mac, because in 2004 Swinburne University created the first commercial mobile digital dome system, and it operated with a MacBook Pro. Yet in time I received a mirror-warped Celestia 1.4.1 version for Windows too (you can download both at this link: https...

GOOD NEWS! I have finally received the spherical mirror projection source code for Celestia ver. 1.4.1. It can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vpefaI36Paa8APKboBZXEj6zFKJLOMqc It came with the following comment: There is a CGShader that does the majority of the work in converti...

Yes it's on its way :-) I'm in touch with the person who originally commissioned the spherical mirror version at the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University. 10 days ago he said: "Hi Mario, I think I’ve located the 1.4.1 version for you, but I just need to check a cou...

OK no problem, I will update both forums. I have contacted Discovery Dome and they don't have the source code, so they referred me to Paul Bourke, who was originally commissioned to do the work. Paul Bourke says he does not have the source code either, because he employed a programmer called Evan Ha...

From now on, perhaps we can follow the discussion and progress here:

https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues/572

I've managed to find the original creator of the dome version of Celestia 1.4.1 and we may soon have the source code.

Thank you.

Thank you for your initial overview and summary @Janus. >>Before I can go into this any further here, I need to know the status of the program. While I can give a decent amount of detail, I need to know if I can use the program itself to do so, or if I need to use other props. As best I can tell at ...

Thank you for the advice @Lafuente_Astronomy, I have joined GitHub and opened a request for spherical mirror projection.

I have also shared my Celestia 1.4.1 (planetarium version) with @Janus. If anyone else would like a copy, please let me know.

Thank you for your reply @Lafuente_Astronomy 1: I have now subscribed and bookmarked this topic. 2: Apparently only Celestia 1.4.1 was modified for projection with a spherical mirror in digital planetariums. The work was commissioned by Discovery Dome for its customers, many years ago. Please let me...

OK this is strange. @Janus I was not notified of your reply, even though I have notifications turned on! In fact, as you can see from my screengrab below, I have not received any notifications. Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong? @Janus and anyone else, please email me for a copy of the ...

Hello Matt Apologies for my VERY late reply, but I thought I had email notifications turned on! Plus, to be honest, I didn't expect anyone to take an interest in my post, as the mobile planetarium community / industry is relatively small and the Celestia developers probably have far more important w...

Hello I own and operate my own mobile planetarium business and Celestia 1.4.1 continues to be as important to me as Stellarium and my catalogue of fulldome (360°) films. I use Celestia ver 1.4.1 adapted for spherical mirror projection. This version was commissioned by Discovery Dome many years ago a...