Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'm looking for someone who wishes to adopt celestia. I'm not really
using the program lately and I'm sure it's suffering because of that.
Development upstream is very active and Chris Laurel is very
cooperative. There's some half-done GTK 2 port in the Debian packages
which needs to be finished and submitted upstream. Other than that,
it's pretty much ok.
Description: A real-time visual space simulation, GTK+ frontend
Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space. Choose a point
within the Local Group of galaxies, and Celestia will show you an
approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you actually
there. Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily
hypothetical--the farther away from Earth you get, the less real
data there is and the more guesswork is involved. Thus Celestia
supplements observational data with good guesses based on models of
stellar and planetary processes.
Celestia is unique in its ability to allow you to navigate at an
immense range of scales. Orbit a couple kilometers above the
surface of a tiny, irregular asteroid, then head off towards
Jupiter, watching it grow from a bright point of light into a
looming sphere filling your field of vision. Leave our solar
system entirely and observe the sun as it fades from a brilliant
disk to a bright star, disappearing almost entirely as you head off
toward the Upsilon Andromeda system to orbit around its innermost
giant planet.
Thanks,
Marcelo
