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| Full description
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Celestia is a real-time visual simulation … Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space. Choose a point within the Local Group of galaxies, and Celestia will show you an approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you actually there. Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily hypothetical--the farther away from Earth you get, the less real data there is and the more guesswork is involved. Thus Celestia supplements observational data with good guesses based on models of stellar and planetary processes. You can also navigate at an immense range of scales. Orbit a couple kilometers above the surface of a tiny, irregular asteroid, then head off toward Jupiter, watching it grow from a bright point of light into a looming sphere filling your field of vision. Leave our solar system entirely and observe the sun as it fades from a brilliant disk to a bright star, disappearing almost entirely as you head off toward the Upsilon Andromeda system to orbit around its innermost giant planet.o orbit around its innermost giant planet.
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| Homepage URL
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http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ +
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| Interface
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x-window-system +
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| Is GNU
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false +
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| Keywords
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science +
, astronomy +
, solar system +
, simulation +
, stars +
, celestia +
, galaxies +
, planets +
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| Last review by
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Janet Casey +
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| Last review date
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17 April 2003 +
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| License
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GPLv2orlater +
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| License verified by
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Janet Casey +
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| License verified date
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26 November 2001 +
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| Name
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Celestia +
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| Real name
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Chris Laurel +
, Clint Weisbrod +
, Shawn Jones +
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| Related projects
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Planet Finder +
, Hitchhiker 2000 +
, Kstars +
, Nightfall +
, Xplanet +
, Stellarium +
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| Resource URL
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=21302&atid=121302 +
, http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/celestia-devel +
, http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/celestia-users +
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| Resource audience
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Bug Tracking +
, Developer +
, Support +
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| Resource kind
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VCS Repository Webview +
, Mailing List Info/Archive +
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| Revisionid
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2,770 +
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| Revisiontimestamp
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12 April 2011 08:26:59 +
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| Revisionuser
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User:WikiSysop +
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| Role
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Maintainer +
, Contributor +
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| Science
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astronomy +
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| Short description
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Visual simulation of space +
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| Submitted by
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Database conversion +
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| Submitted date
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1 April 2011 +
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| Use
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science +
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| User level
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none +
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| VCS checkout command
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:pserver:anonymous@cvs.celestia.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia +
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| Version comment
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1.3.2 stable released 2004-10-08
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| Version date
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8 October 2004 +
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| Version download
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.3.2.tar.gz +
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| Version identifier
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1.3.2 +
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| Version status
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stable +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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5 March 2013 21:13:34 +
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| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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| Has subobjectThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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Celestia +
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| EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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claurel@shatters.net +
, cweisbrod@adelphia.net +
, wachter@users.sourceforge.net +
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