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I'm afraid that I am rather frustrated at this point with trying to change the various default textures for the planets, specificially the Earth and Mars. What I am doing wrong a bit of a mystery, but I do have one thing that those of you who are putting up these replacement textures need to do: PUT...

Any idea of when the shadows of the planets on their respective moons will remain dark and not put on the animated light show (I like lightening but this is ridiculous :-))? (Intel Pentium III 800 Mhz with 640MB RAM and ATI ALL IN WONDER 128). Or, am I setting things up incorrectly? Thanks.

Thanks for making the change in the ring format image. I am demonstrating Celestial next week at our astronomy club meeting, and I knew that somebody would object to a "ringlet" in the middle of the Encke gap.

Celestia shows Saturn's moon Pan orbiting correctly in the middle of the narrow Encke Division in Saturn's rings, but the rings show a "ringlet" right on Pan's orbital path. This needs to be removed, as there isn't much in that division that hasn't already been either swept up by Pan, or perturbed o...

In both the regular downloaded version and the new pre version, the orbital times of events differ from what they are supposed to be in reality, sometimes by up to 40 minutes. I have been checking the events of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, (eclipses, planetary occulations, transits, ect.) and they...