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  1. 06-23-2003, 03:03 PM #1
    Ezri's Toy
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    FREE Planetarium software (Customizable and Useful for RPGs)

    Celestia:

    Available for PC, Unix, and Mac OS X. Source code packages also available.

    Can be customized with actual or fictional astronomical data. Use this to add Vulcan, Andor, and Ferenginar to our galaxy. . . .

    http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html
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    Nice . . . Nice

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    This is a amzing piece of kit!


    Sir Sig! I reckon you should start plotting where all the Star Trek planets are in relation to Earth and create the planets for them!

    or anyone else for that matter!
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  4. 06-24-2003, 08:50 AM #4
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    I'm a week away from finishing my Masters in Education - like countless others, I have to wait until the guillotine is coming down on the back of my neck before I can actually motivate myself to get moving at anything more than a crawl - and I spent a good hour and a half last night travelling the galaxy with this thing. The team behind this deserve a big round of applause for having given us a suberb visual tool that we can use to expand the borders of our imaginations, not to mention which it can be customized for personal (i.e., game) purposes.

    P.S.: I was gratified to see that the systems containing planets - at least those we've located so far - were included. Just wondering: anybody know if any of these Jovian-type worlds actually been named yet? All of them seem to be simply down as "b".

    P.P.S.: Almost forgot: muchos thanks to Ezri's Toy for having let us in on this. Very much appreciated.
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    Originally posted by D.S.McBride
    I'm a week away from finishing my Masters in Education...
    Hey! Working on mine, as well. One year to go...
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    extrasolar planets

    I don't think any of the extrasolar planets are going to be given names, unless we find natives and use the native names. There are just too many, and I guess the astronomers don't want to show favoritism to the first of them to be discovered.
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