Take a free ride through our galaxy!

[Edric O]

I've just found an absolutely magnificent 3D Galaxy simulator. It's called Celestia and you can download it from this site:

http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/

It's a 11 Meg download, but believe me, it's worth it! It allows you to view every star and known planet in our galaxy in full 3D. And on a real scale (not the highly compressed distances most space games use nowadays).

One thing I love to do is to zoom in on Earth, then zoom out until I have the whole galaxy in view... beautiful.

(warning: the galaxy does not, in fact, look anywhere near as brilliant as it should. That's the only flaw I've found so far to this program.)

[Acriku]

There's plenty of beauty in space. You just have to look at the abstractions and appreciate the natural art.

[sneezer3]

I've just found an absolutely magnificent 3D Galaxy simulator. It's called Celestia and you can download it from this site:

http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/

It's a 11 Meg download, but believe me, it's worth it! It allows you to view every star and known planet in our galaxy in full 3D. And on a real scale (not the highly compressed distances most space games use nowadays).

One thing I love to do is to zoom in on Earth, then zoom out until I have the whole galaxy in view... beautiful.

(warning: the galaxy does not, in fact, look anywhere near as brilliant as it should. That's the only flaw I've found so far to this program.)

Looks preety cool. thanks for posting this i'l try it. But from what i can tell from the screenshots it looks a little to 3D or like you said to look has brilliant has it should.

Where did you find it a or how did you find it?

[sneezer3]

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[thomas]

cool 8)

[Terror]

hah kewl.. this one is very good... i will have to download it at home again though... on school the comp has trouble doing it smootly.. also the navigation seems to be a bit strange

[IxianMace]

Woohoo!! :D Thanks Edric!! I have you and Pointybum to thank for the brilliant eye candy that I've got. This should go very well with the Desktop Dreamscapes 3D space pack. 8) :)

[Terror]

damn this is incredible.. it is scientificly so right and it looks awsome... i wonder where the creator got all the info from

[nemafakei]

"i wonder where the creator got all the info from"

Is that a metaphysical question, or are you referring to the author of the programme?

[Edric O]

LOL

Of course he means the creator of the program, not "the" Creator... :)

[Edric O]

He he, IxianMace, I've got Desktop Dreamscapes too. :)

I found out about Celestia from another forum, the Relic forum to be exact. (Relic = the creators of Homeworld) Everybody over there loves space. ;)

[Terror]

that's kinda logical.... homeworld is about space ::)