Celestia (Freeware!)

Playing with Celestia. Download it from http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

"The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. [...] 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."

This movie does no justice at all to the graphics on this thing!

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Science & Technology

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• free
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• space
• cosmos
• universe
• scale
• astronomy
• galaxy
• stars
• earth
• sun
• moon

[HandLotionSolo]

Is it a large program? Will it slow down my PC?

[nagualdesign]

I updated my star catalogue from 100,000 stars to over 2 million, and my laptop runs fine. It takes up over 3Gb now though.

Find The Celestia Motherlode for everything you need. ;-J

[HandLotionSolo]

Thanks for the reply, nagualdesign. Celestia looks great, but 3Gb? Holy crap!

[nagualdesign]

Well, it takes up slightly less disk space than Grand Theft Auto SA, and has similar graphics requirements (I'm guessing), so if you play computer games Celestia shouldn't pose any problems. It's like a space flight sim. And if you like it, like me, you can download gigabytes of extras!

-Joe

[supercat1997]

can we see an other thing outside our solar system?? like nebula or other?

[Vegita08]

Get a better graphics card; that should help. If not then buy a better computer.

[XxRaxierxX]

for some reason when i try to play around with it the planets look all wierd and messed up!! they look NOTHING like the ones in the video!

[Snowzinger]

I tried to play this game on my computer ( I can play civ IV without a problem, but when I try to use it my computer messes up and goes bluescreen on me.

[HandLotionSolo]

Thanks.

[SDMagicMan]

this is a fun freeware