Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space

Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/1988

Re: Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space

#6

Post by buescher » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 1:20 AM UTC

I don't know why World Wide Telescope doesn't get more love: https://worldwidetelescope.org/download/

#7

Post by tempodox » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 6:45 AM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #2

Celestia is good but if you're willing to leave the free software space you might enjoy "Space Engine" more.

Nice, but Windows only.

#8

Post by tempodox » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 7:15 AM UTC

You can enhance the base version with extras from https://celestiaproject.space/addons.html.

There are high-resolution textures for Solar system objects, and even mythical stuff from Star Trek.

#9

Post by lagrange77 » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 2:15 PM UTC

I'm using it as a 'screen saver' for my second monitor when i don't need it.

#10

Post by pmayrgundter » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

I have a hobby project to move Celestia to Web and uses its data files