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Celestia Documentation (Manuals and Guides)
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| User's Guides | |
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Celestia 1.6.0 / 1.6.1 User's Guide
by Frank Gregorio A comprehensive User's Guide for Celestia version 1.6.0 / 1.6.1. 
1.6.0 MS Word document
- 4.2 MB Zipped
1.6.1 MS Word document
- 8.0 MB Zipped
German Handbook incl. scripting guides
by Ulrich "Adirondack" Dickmann(Celestia 1.6.1) 
1.6.0 MS Word document
- 5.7 MB Zipped (French by Jogad)
1.6.0 MS Word document DOCX (2017)
- 5.4 MB (Dutch by Marco Klunder)
1.6.0 PDF document (2017)
- 1.6 MB (Dutch by Marco Klunder)
1.6.0 MS Word document
- 4.6 MB (Russian by Leserg)
1.6.0 PDF document
- 4.6 MB (Russian by Leserg)
1.6.1 PDF document
- 13 MB (Simplyfied Chinese by Hanghang)
1.6.1 MS Word & OO ODT document
- 8 MB Zipped (Italian by Carlo Pignatti) |
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Celestia Key Chart
provided by The Learning Technologies Project Office of NASA This key chart describes frequently used keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately the key charts are no longer available at NASA. But Leserg provided an adaption for Celestia 1.6.0:
PNG image
for screen display - 1.3 MB
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for screen display - 1.5 MB
PNG image
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| Scripting Guides (CEL, CELX/Lua) | |
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CEL Scripting Guide - version 1.0g for Celestia 1.3.1
by Don Goyette This 55+ page guide describes Celestia's 1.3.1 CEL scripting language in easy-to-understand terms and includes many examples.
MS Word document
- 672 KB
RTF document
- 723 KB
HTML document
PDF document - 586 KB Zipped (by Leserg)
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Summary of Lua (CELX) Support in Celestia
by Harald Schmidt This summary describes the implementation of CELX (Lua) scripting in Celestia v1.3.2. For information on the Lua, the language, go to: http://www.lua.org/.
HTML document
RTF document
- 61 KB (by Don Goyette - includes examples) |
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Celx/Lua Methods
by Don Goyette A one-page text file that lists the current methods available in Celx, sorted by object.
RTF document
- 2 KB |
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CELX-Scripting (How to migrate from CEL scripting) - version 1.2 (12/01/2010)
by Marko Klunder This document is intended to help people to migrate from CEL to CELX scripting. On the other hand it also contains a lot of useful information for those who are already using CELX.
MS Word document
- 1.2 MB
PDF document
- 944 KB
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Scripting-Related Web Sites
Celestia Lua/CELX Scripting Stuff
(Harald Schmidt)
Don G's Celestia Scripting Resources
(Don Goyette) |
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| Data File Guides (SSC, STC, XYZ) | |
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SSC File Scripting Guide - version 1.0 for Celestia 1.3.2
by Ulrich "Adirondack" Dickmann and Bob Hegwood This guide describes the commands available for use in Celestia's 1.3.2 Solar System Catalog (.SSC) files.
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- 409 KB Zipped
PDF document
- 848 KB Zipped (by Leserg) |
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STC File Scripting Guide 1.2 for Celestia 1.4.1
by Christian Lenz This guide describes the commands available for use in Celestia's Star Catalog (.STC) files.
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PDF document
- 376 KB
PDF document
- 778 KB Zipped (by Leserg) |
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Creating and Using SSC Files
by Selden Ball, Jr. This guide describes how to create and use a Celestia Solar System Catalog (.ssc) file.
HTML document
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Transforming Orbital Elements into Celestia's SSC File Format
by Selden Ball, Jr. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) publishes circulars which have orbital elements for comets and for asteroids. This is a brief, incomplete, description of how to transform the IAU orbital elements of a comet or asteroid into Celestia's SSC file format.
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| Virtual Texture (VT) Guides | |
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Virtual Textures for Dummies Package - version 1.0
by Bob Hegwood This guide explains what a Celestia Virtual Texture (VT) is, how to use them, and how to create them. The larger file includes the guide along with 512K x 512K VT/JPG textures for the first three levels of Mars.
PDF guide and Mars VT/JPG textures
- 1.4 MB Zipped
PDF guide ONLY
- 61 KB Zipped
PDF guide and Mars VT/JPG textures
- 2.9 MB Zipped (by Leserg) |
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Virtual Surface Textures
by Selden Ball, Jr. This is Selden's very educational page for Virtual Textures.
HTML document
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| Other Guides and Resources | |
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Introduction to Celestia Add-ons
by Selden Ball, Jr. A (not so) brief introduction to Celestia Add-ons.
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Orbital Parameters
by Selden Ball, Jr. Parameters Describing Elliptical Orbits.
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Orbital Elements
by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Explanation of orbital elements.
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Solar System Dynamics - Orbital Information
by JPL Solar System Dynamics Group / NASA Information on the orbits and other properties of the bodies in the solar system.
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Kepler und seine drei Gesetze
(Kepler's Laws) by Ulrich "Adirondack" Dickmann Information about the three laws of Johannes Kepler.
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The Nine Planets / Die Neun Planeten
A very readable compendium of information on the bodies in our solar system.
HTML document
(by Bill Arnett)
HTML document
(German by Christoph Högl, Helmut Fritsch and Michael Wapp) |
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Celestia Exploration Activity
An online Exploration Activity by The Learning Technologies Project Office of NASA (with cel://URLs). Unfortunately this is no longer available at NASA. |
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| Document Writer's Web Sites | |
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Don Goyette's Scripting Resources
- Don Goyette
Selden's List of Resources for Celestia
- Selden Ball, Jr.
Celestia for the Brain-Dead
- Bob Hegwood
Adirondack's German Celestia Site
- Ulrich "Adirondack" Dickmann
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Page last updated: January 22, 2020 |