Hey guys I just wanted to show to those, who might not know, some of my favourite space software:
Space Simultator "Celestia" (the BEST!!!)
(http://www.cosmosfrontier.com/files/celestia.jpg) (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/)
ADDONS (http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/)
Home planetarium "Stellarium"
(http://www.stellarium.org/img/bg-header.jpg) (http://www.stellarium.org/)
Japanese space simulator project "Mitaka"
(http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/html/program/mitaka/mitaka_open.jpg) (http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/html/program/mitaka/index_E.html)
Nice!! ;D
I'm definitely going to try these out, space nut that I am!
I use Stellarium myself :P
Pretty cool program :P
In my opinion, Celestia is the best out there. It's the most accurate and up-to-date space simulation ever, with gigantic forum for discussing, countless wonderfull addons (I was using it for ortophoto earth overview even before the Google-earth appeared) and script support for educational purposes.
One of my favourite addons is the star database - adds much more stars to Celestia (the software has only about 14000 in the installation package, but you can exchange the database with this - over 200 000 one):
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=1114
(although this bigger database has some location errors, I don't think you'll ever notice ;D)
I looked on that website and was tickled to see add-ons for Star Trek star systems! ;D Those would be interesting to actually see!
Does anyone use space flight simulators? More specifically, Orbiter?
You mean this one http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php ?
Wow! I hope it's free, downloading now!
100% free, 100% awesome with add ons.