Celestia: The free space simulator

[zookuw]

Welcome to Celestia
... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on
Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.


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 movement 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.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

It's quite cool and very small for the large amount of data you can use it for.

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[?]

I thought this was about ponies at first but I remembered that it's estia or something

[xxjpxx]

Fantastic simulation. I really like it a lot. The addons are cool too. Doesn't this belong in games though? Because technically, a simulator is still a game (but not in the ordinary sense).

[zookuw]

Fantastic simulation. I really like it a lot. The addons are cool too. Doesn't this belong in games though? Because technically, a simulator is still a game (but not in the ordinary sense).

I was thinking about it but decided to place it here because it's not really a game, it's more like a library of information on space.

I thought this was about ponies at first but I remembered that it's estia or something

You can guess how I found this.

[Lørd Tøny]

I came here thinking Celestia was that Princess Celestia pony.

[zookuw]

Why must we have more pony topics? Put this stuff in the megathread.

O u

[Max4344]

Opps Tord Tony edited when i was posting lol
Please ignore this post

[Qwepir]

For the good of everyone, Tony needs to slow down and think before he posts.

It's quite cool and very small for the large amount of data you can use it for.

Um, is this good or bad?

[?]

Um, is this good or bad?

it's good, it's small as in file size I guess but large in the amount of info it has
i think

[zookuw]

For the good of everyone, Tony needs to slow down and think before he posts.
Um, is this good or bad?

Small in computer data size large in literal data size

So it's a very good thing.

[Altered]

For the good of everyone, Tony needs to slow down and think before he posts.

I don't think that's possible.

[zookuw]

Data!
Information!
Fun!
<3

[Qwepir]

Small in computer data size large in literal data size

So it's a very good thing.

oh
I thought you meant it was small for the amount of size it took up lol.
Thanks for clarifying.

[Oasis]

Found this a year or two ago. It's really quite fun looking for planets suitable for life.

[Vine]

I thought this was about Pew446's game.

But then I remembered he was going to call it celestial.

Looks cool.

I might try it later.