Selden's Gallery of Celestia Pictures, Part 1: Screenshots

Contents

Celestia Screenshots
Man Made Satellites
- ISS Closeup
- INTEGRAL
Nebulae
Other Stuff
Venus
- Venus Transits Jupiter in 1818
- Venus Occults Mercury in 1737
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
- Jupiter Occults Neptune in 1613
- Jupiter's Rings.
Saturn

Some Celestia Screenshots

Man Made Satellites
ISS Closeup This view can be seen in Celestia 1.2.4 with no addons. Cel://URL: ISS Closeup	ISS full view (blue panels)
ISS full view (bright panels)	ISS Solar Cells
ISS full view (bright panels)	ISS Solar Cells These were cut from a photograph of the solar panels actually used on the ISS. These patterns can replace the blue solar cell texture used in Celestia: `/textures/medres/iss-sol1.jpg`
INTEGRAL ESA Gamma Ray Telescope This view requires the INTEGRAL 3ds model. See spacecraft.html#3.4.4.
Nebulae
Viewing the Nebulae shown below requires Celestia v1.3 or later with appropriate billboard objects displaying images of the Carina and Eagle Nebulae.	See billboard.html for details.
Earth in the Carina Nebula Sorry: this image had to be taken down. MySpace doesn't seem to understand the concept of "theft of bandwidth". If you'd like a copy of the picture, please contact me. Cel://URL: Earth in the Carina Nebula	Earth in NGC 3372 Cel://URL: Earth in NGC 3372 .
The fire this time: MSX IR map of the Milky Way Cel:// URL: The fire this time: MSX IR map of the Milky Way	MSX IR map within the Milky Way Cel:// URL: MSX IR map within the Milky Way
The Eagle Nebula in visual and far infrared Cel:// URL: The Eagle Nebula in visual and far infrared See also: m16-v2-readme.html M16 and the Eagle Nebula
Spokes of stars in StarsDB v2? Discussion is in spokes.html To see this in Celestia, you'll need to install the 2,000,000 stars.db addon.	Ida seen from Dactyl This view can be seen in Celestia 1.2.4 with no addons. Cel://URL: Ida seen from Dactyl

SL9-B following SL9-A to Jupiter This view requires a Shoemaker-Levy 9 SSC file. Shoemaker-Levy 9 ephemerides are on the Cometary Orbits page.	A 3-star system This view was manufactured by creating an STC file defining 3 stars very close to one another.	Don Edwards' Volcanic Moon in eclipse This view was obtained by putting Don Edwards' Volcanic Moon in orbit around Mars. ( http://www.shatters.net/~impulse/Volcanic Moon.zip)
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Venus	.	.
Venus Transits Jupiter in 1818	Venus Transits Jupiter in 1818 as seen with Celestia v1.2.5	Venus Occults Mercury in 1737	.
As it might have been seen from over Hawaii. And if Venus had no clouds. The visible moon is Ganymede.	Note the different (improved!) location of Ganymede	On May 28, 1737, John Bevis observed portions of the passage of Venus in front of Mercury from Greenwitch Observatory. Here's Celestia's image of that event, as viewed (roughly) from the location of Greenwitch. A small piece of Mercury is visible past the lower left edge of Venus. Since Celestia does not implement light travel time, the time and appearance of this event is distorted. Mercury is about 1 AU away (8.3 light minutes) while Venus is only about 1/3 of an AU away (less than 3 light minutes).	.
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Earth	.	.
Biohazard Rendered using Celestia	Biohazard Rendered using Anim8or	biohazard.zip (550KB) Addon to put a wooden crate around the Earth: it's a biohazard.
Lunar Eclipse on 8 November 2003.
As seen from over the eastern Pacific. Baja California is in the lower center of the image.
The Four Seasons	.
Spring Equinox: 21 March, 2003.	Summer Solstice: 21 June, 2003.
Fall Equinox: 21 September, 2003.	Winter Solstice: 21 December, 2003.
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Mars	.	.
Mars Transits Saturn in 9 BC	Mars Transits Jupiter in 1170
Telescopic view as seen from above the FingerLakes of NY. This view requires Celestia 1.2.5pre7 or later. The orbits defined in 1.2.4 aren't accurate enough. It happened during the day and near the sun, so nobody would have seen it even if they'd had telescopes way back then.	Gervase of Canterbury observed Mars transiting Jupiter on the night of Sepember 12th, 1170. Here's Celestia's view of this event as seen from above England.
Mars as imagined by Percival Lowell. This view requires a special surface texture for Mars. See gallery-002.html	RGB Mars by Celestia This view requires a special surface texture for Mars. See Frans Blok's RGB Mars.	.
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Jupiter Occults Neptune in 1613	Jupiter's rings	.
First contact. This happened during the time Galileo was observing Jupiter, but while Jupiter was out of sight of Italy. Apparently he noted Neptune as a star. The bright foreground moons are Europa and Ganymede. Presumably Celestia 1.2.5 final will draw them in somewhat different locations.	This shows Jupiter's very faint rings. They are just barely visible, even though they're being backlit by an all-sky H-α map. This view requires A model of Jupiter's rings: see http://www.la-guarida.com/Celestia/ In addition, the all-sky map requires Celestia v1.3.1 prerelease 4 or later An all-sky H-α map: see billboard.html#7.2.2 Here's a Cel:// URL to take you to this viewpoint: Jupiter's rings	.
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Saturn
Saturn's rings casting shadows	The Shadow of Iapetus in the Shadow of the Rings	Saturn during Earth's solar eclipse on June 11, 2002.
In order to see shadows cast on the planet by the rings, you need either Celestia v1.2.5 and a GeForce3 or GeForce4 card with vertex shader support or Celestia v1.3.0 or later and a modern graphics card which supports OpenGL v1.4's "ARB_Vertex" routines.	December 22, 1980 Note the shadow cast by Iapetus onto Saturn within the shadow of Saturn's rings. Its shadow should be cast on the rings, too, but that has not yet been implemented as of Celestia v1.2.5pre7. First observed by Paul "Calculus." See his screencapture of this event in his Gallery of "Celestia Phenomena".	Saturn is the bright dot in the center of the picture.
An extra ring in Enke's Gap? (fixed in Celestia v1.3.0)	Saturn's new rings	saturn-rings-1024.png saturn-rings-512.png
Above: Pan in Enke's Gap: ring image bug (Pan is the tiny dot in the center of the image. Saturn is off-screen to your right.) As shipped with Celestia (up through v1.2.5), the file /lores/saturn-rings.png has a misaligned alpha channel, which creates a spurious gap inward from Enke's Gap. This has been fixed in Celestia v1.3.0.	Above: Pan in Enke's Gap: ring fixed (Pan is the tiny dot in the center of the image. Saturn is off-screen to your right.) This view requires Celestia v1.3 or the replacement ring image provided here.	Not needed for Celestia v1.3, this is a replacement for /textures/lores/saturn-rings.png using appropriate reflective and transparency (alpha-channel) images. The image maps were obtained from the Web site of Björn Jónsson: http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/saturn/rings.html "A preliminary model of Saturn's rings" Slight modifications were made to the images so that the major ring features of the transparency channel are aligned with those of the reflective image. Björn informed me that he used data from the Voyager CDs to create his texture maps, so I'd also like to acknowledge the Voyager Experiment Team Leader, Dr. Bradford A. Smith, the Planetary Data System, and the National Space Science Data Center through World Data center A for Rockets and Satellites for providing the original data.
Seeing Orion and Barnard 33 past Pan	Horsehead Nebula in Orion	See also billboard.html.
Saturn by Cassini	Saturn by Celestia	Titan and Saturn's ring shadows
October 21, 2002, 285 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/Southwest Research Institute See also: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02884 According to the article, the only moon resolved was Titan. They enhanced its brightness 3x compared to Saturn.	October 21, 2002, 285 million km from Saturn. Credit: Celestia by Chris Laurel Telescopic screen snapshot taken from the viewpoint of Cassini's xyz position at 2002 10 21 15:54:37 UTC. Note that several moons are visible in addition to Titan.
Colorful Threads (by Cassini)	Colorful Threads (by Celestia)
July 30, 2004, 7.6 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/Southwest Research Institute See also: http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=350 and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06114	July 30, 2004, 7.4 million km from Saturn. Credit: Celestia by Chris Laurel Telescopic screen snapshot taken from the viewpoint of Cassini position at July 30, 2004, 18:47 UT.