Celestia - The Planetarium
Celestia is more than a simple Planetarium… It’s a travel into deep space… It has a great number of different:
- Asteroids
- Comets
- Constellations
- Galaxies
- Locations
- Moons
- Nebulae
- Planets
- Spacecrafts
- Stars
You can go everywhere you want in a 3D environment!!!
And then it has many scripts which add many interesting functions… like guided tour!
Great… simply Great!
Here a wonderful photo I’ve found on this interesting link where I discovered that NASA uses Fedora.
(This is not related to Celestia)
“Reality hit when I saw this. See that text that says “You are Here?” Well if you’ve ever seen a Red Hat video, many of them end with that, and it sent a chill down my spine to see it there with in the same font nonetheless. It got me thinking about our community and how as people, we really imitate the vast mechanics of space and our universe. As a community, each interaction is like another collision of asteroids, another chance for something to take root. Another chance for a planet to come to life.”
From MadRhetoric
Here is a screenshot of Celestia:
Links:
ArchLinux Installation:
1. Pacman
Simply typing this:
sudo pacman -Sy celestia
2. Yaourt
yaourt -S celestia-cvs
We can also install other 2 add-ons that are on AUR simply with:
yaourt -S celestia-earth-satellites
yaourt -S celestia-planettours-enhanced-en
1. celestia-earth-satellites —-> Human-made satellites orbiting the Earth as of 2007
2. celestia-planettours-enhanced-en —–> Tours of the eight major planets plus Pluto in Celestia
PS. I found this program reading a post from Tuttopensource.it
If you had interesting links or any other thing related to this post… just comment it ;)
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