levinli303
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2 years ago @SevenSpheres @DaveBowman2001 let me know what you think
Closed levinli303 closed 1 year ago
levinli303
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2 years ago @SevenSpheres @DaveBowman2001 let me know what you think
levinli303
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2 years ago The first news column will be about 1.5.2 release, for some reasons the example do not display as links here on Github, but it will be clickable when presented inside Celestia. Please help me reword if you find any mistake in it.
Get latest version of Celestia here
The News feature is a good place to get your artwork viewed by all Mobile Celestia users. We are accepting add-ons, articles, user guides if you want to promote your artwork here. Submit your artwork via this link.
You can also reach us via forum or Discord server.
A preview here:
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago @SevenSpheres @DaveBowman2001 let me know what you think
Hmm...for the addons part, this could be similar in function to the #addons-release channel in Discord. This could be helpful in tracking whenever there are new uploads in github
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago Is there a specific format for the News section? Or is it somewhat free-style atm
levinli303
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2 years ago I've added News/Tools/Tutorials to https://celestia.mobi navigation.
I think probably for news, we can make it more standardized:
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago Like this?
1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6: 2022, Week 8
levinli303
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2 years ago Is there a specific format for the News section? Or is it somewhat free-style atm
It is rather freeform, almost everything can be embedded. As a matter of fact, the add-on submission is also quite freeform now.
Like this?
1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6: 2022, Week 8
Yeah like this. I would probably use put '2022, Week 8: 1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6'
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago Got it. Last-ish question: If there are multiple addon submissions made in the same day, should their news articles be separate to each other or it's better if they were announced in a single post?
levinli303
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2 years ago Got it. Last-ish question: If there are multiple addon submissions made in the same day, should their news articles be separate to each other or it's better if they were announced in a single post?
I think we only publish weekly updates, so it should not be a problem. the weekly post should contain all or some of the add-ons added/updated during the week.
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago Ok thanks. Will retract my sample news post temporarily now
levinli303
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2 years ago Yeah, it could be like (just a suggestion):
Week 8, 2022: Anything you want to highlight (This will be the title)
Updated addons:
1. AAA. (Fixed...?, Added...? or none)
2. BBB. Fixed the issue of ...
New addons:
1. CCC. (a short description or none)
2. DDD. Visualization of ...
(Any addon you want to highlight here, or none)
(Any other content goes here)Besides Celestia related stuff, I think we can also put general astronomy news, big astronomical events, etc.
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Feb 20-26, 2022) by category
594913 ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim
UPDATES:
1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6
Footprint Nebula
Aurora borealis on Earth
UPDATES: (Mostly just revised trajectory updates only)
Explorer 1
Mira and its companion star
2018 VG18 (FarOut)
levinli303
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2 years ago @DaveBowman2001 I do not think we should include images for every addon, most of them we should just list as bullet text with links. just pick some outstanding ones (maybe one or two per category). since you are the author you get to determine which ones.
Also, it might be week 9 instead of week 8.
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago I do not think we should include images for every addon, most of them we should just list as bullet text with links
I think you're right, much more simple to do and look at. Changed the article now
Also, it might be week 9 instead of week 8.
It's still Week 8, just checked the Calendar. Will be finished by Saturday
levinli303
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2 years ago @DaveBowman2001
I think we should put the update info in the addon itself, rather than having long paragraphs in the News section.
a temporary link of preview can be found here: https://celestia.mobi/resources/guide?guide=306FE395-9B85-ACAD-24AF-17BF739CE037 updates were listed with no details. if you want to list details, please summarize with one sentence for each add-on update
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2 years ago These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2022) by category
The planets of Kepler-432
UPDATES:
The disproven planets of Gliese 581
Tiangong Space Station, as of March 2022
UPDATES:
A brown dwarf orbiting the primary star of NLTT 41135 system
levinli303
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2 years ago I'm looking at in-app event feature offered by Apple''s App Store. Basically it can highlight a timely event in app's product page. If done well, Apple can even promote this event/app in certain areas. Users can also find the app by searching the event's name.
For example, we could add a timely event that links to James Webb add-on, when this add-on is first published. So users can actually search for James Webb and find Celestia. We can also add different customization for different regions, for example in China's App Store, we could promote stuff that are more related to China etc. But note that this should only happen for BIG events that are worth investing, and as it suggests timely.
If we want to make an event, we will need to prepare, the images should be very appealing instead of a plain representation of an object
levinli303
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2 years ago levinli303
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2 years ago I made an event for Tiangong and it will run through Mar 8 to April 8. let's see how it goes. It will only visible to people in China mainland/Hong Kong/Macau
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 10, 2022 - Newest Addons of the Week.txt
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Mar 6 - 12, 2022) by category
The two identical asteroids that make up 90 Antiope
Pōwehi, the central black hole of Messier 87
NGC 6440 X-2 b, a planet 8000x larger than its star (because it's a neutron star)
The Great Storm of 2010 raging Saturn's northern hemisphere
Hayabusa 2 and its target asteroid, 162173 Ryugu
UPDATES:
Vega and its surrounding protoplanetary disk
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 11, 2022 - Asteroid Discovered 2 Hours Before Earth Impact.txt
Asteroid 2022 EB5, two hours before Earth impact, 2022-Mar-11
On March 11, 2022, a 2-meter wide asteroid, named 2022 EB5, was spotted by the Fiskesteteu Observatory in Hungary just two hours before Earth impact, the fifth such object discovered. It burned up on the atmosphere just north of Iceland at 21:00 UTC the same day
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Mar 13 - 19, 2022) by category
2 Pallas, one of the largest known main-belt asteroids
The planets of Kepler-47
3C 321, a pair of two galaxies which fires a stream of energy to its companion, 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth
Jupiter becoming uncanny? Nope, that's just its true color map in 2020, and the other viewed in radio waves
UPDATES:
A spent S-IVB rocket stage in heliocentric orbit
Salyut 7 during the visit of Soyuz T-15, May 1986
The two stars of Epsilon Aurigae
levinli303
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2 years ago since a new version of Celestia (mobile) is released
a "what's new" will be released around Wednesday. preview link: https://celestia.mobi/resources/guide?guide=89552EE4-AC68-DCAB-90B2-7D1FFB1133A4
with paging support enabled (on iOS/Mac Catalyst/Android. Windows version removed in-app add-on list feature so no paging is needed), the limit of number of add-ons per category is lifted.
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 12, 2022 - NASA Confirms Existence of 5,000 Exoplanets.txt
Statistics of exoplanet discoveries as of (2022-Mar-21)
As of March 21, 2022, there are now 5,005 confirmed exoplanets discovered across 3,759 star systems, with 8,738 more well on the way, awaiting confirmation on follow-up observations! The illustration above (by NASA/Caltech) shows the population of all discovered planets by size and composition. In addition, different renditions of 117 star systems are now available as addons for Celestia
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Mar 20 - 26, 2022) by category
66391 Moshup and its moon, Squannit
HD 154088 b
The planets of 107 Piscium
ArcBuilder Universe:
The Milky Way viewed from the outside
The disproven planets of Kepler-70
Mir during the last Shuttle-Mir mission, STS-91, in June 1998
Conceptual
UPDATES:
The massive white dwarf star known as WD 1832+089
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 20, 2022 - The Milky Way's Central Black Hole Imaged for the First Time.txt
The supermassive black hole from the center of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A*
On May 12, 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope has publicly revealed the actual image of the supermassive black hole from the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way! At around 27,000 light-years distant from Earth, it is the second such black hole imaged after Pōwehi, the central black hole from Messier 87, in 2019.
You can download the Milky Way Center addon to view this magnificent black hole in Celestia
Source: Event Horizon Telescope
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download in the past 49 days (Mar 27 - May 15, 2022) by category
223 Rosa, a large main-belt asteroid potentially targeted for the JUICE mission in 2029
The four confirmed planets of HD 40307
Unconfirmed
UPDATES:
Hovering over Pandora, in James Cameron's Avatar (2009)
Planet Nine, a yet undiscovered superterran/neptunian planet in the Solar System
The Eskimo Nebula, also known as NGC 2392
Molten lava lakes glowing on the night side of Io
UPDATES:
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) orbiting around Ganymede, 2035
Conceptual
UPDATES:
[DBS2003] 75, a compact young star cluster about 18,300 light-years away from Earth
The former tenth planet, Eris
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 21, 2022 - Boeing Starliner Completes Successful 2nd Test Flight.txt
Boeing OFT-2 approaching the International Space Station, 2022-May-21
On May 25, 2022, the Boeing Starliner has successfully completed its five-day uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station after its failed attempt to do so in 2019. This mission, named Boeing OFT-2, will pave the way for future crew transport to the ISS as a complement to SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
You can download the International Space Station addon to view the Starliner spacecraft in Celestia
Source: SpaceNews.com
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (May 16 - 22, 2022) by category
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteoroid shortly before entering the Earth's atmosphere
UPDATES:
The super-Jovian or brown dwarf orbiting the supernova progenitor Mu2 Scorpii, also known as Pipirima
The Starship Avalon passing by Arcturus as depicted in the 2016 film, Passengers
The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite
DaveBowman2001
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2 years ago HTML File: Week 23, 2022 - InSight Lander to End Four-Year-long Mission by December 2022.txt
Final self-portrait image of InSight, taken on April 24, 2022
InSight will end its mission on Mars this year, after engineers calculated it would not produce sufficient power at the end of Martian summer due to intense covering of dust in its solar panels. It might come out as soon as July 2022, but if all things goes well, it will slowly power down each instrument one by one until it is finally decommissioned by December 2022.
The 12th mission of NASA's Discovery Program, InSight was launched in May 5, 2018 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California, USA (a first in planetary exploration history). Shortly after the global dust storm (that killed Opportunity) ended, the spacecraft landed on Elysium Planitia on November 26, 2018 and started its four-year mission to study the interior of the Red Planet
The InSight lander is available for download in the Spacecrafts category here
Source: DW
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting in the past two weeks (May 23 - June 5, 2022) by category
I'm asteroid (33434) Scottmanley, "Fly Safe"!
The debris trail of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in February 2006
Kepler-1708 b and its Neptune-sized satellite, the second such exomoon discovered
View from one of the 550 planets orbiting around the supermassive black hole known as Cormoran
ArcBuilder Universe:
The planets of the Solar System in their 1980s-style art concepts
The five Space Shuttle orbiters (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour). Take note that the payloads rendered are not yet available, but will be posted in future updates of this addon
Updates
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago HTML File: Week 28, 2022 - NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe.txt
On July 12, 2022, NASA publicly released the first full observation images made by the newly commissioned James Webb Space Telescope. During the six month-long commissioning phase, five celestial objects were selected to test the flagship observatory's instruments, which exceeded all expectations and even surpassing the capabilities of Hubble! You can view their images in high-definition on NASA's gallery here
You can download the James Webb Space Telescope addon to view where in the sky the telescope is currently positioned in Celestia
Source: NASA
SMACS 0723, the galaxy cluster where the JWST made its first light, and first deep-field observations
Carina Nebula
The five galaxies that comprise Stephan's Quintet
Southern Ring Nebula
Spectroscopy from WASP-96 b
levinli303
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1 year ago HTML File: [Week 28, 2022 - NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe.txt]
published. new add-ons can wait until next week.
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago HTML = Week 29, 2022 - Newest Addons of the Month.txt
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting Week 24 to 28 (June 13 - July 17, 2022) by category
367943 Duende flew by Earth at roughly the same day a large meteoroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013-Feb-15
Updates
The nucleus of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Updates
The planets of 47 UMa, also known as Chalawan
Updates
Utopia Planitia Shipyards, where the USS Enterprise-D was constructed in the 24th century
2001: A Space Odyssey
Babylon 5
Star Trek
Star Wars
ALF Cen Bb was the closest known exoplanet ever discovered, until its existence was disproven in 2015
Updates
The Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132) as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
Updates
Global representation of Earth if all of its water are compressed into another sphere
Updates
The Lunar Gateway in its planned completed configuration
Updates
levinli303
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1 year ago @DaveBowman2001 I removed <u> and <em> and submitted
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago <u> and <em>?
levinli303
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1 year ago
<u>and<em>?
avoid using them
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago HTML File: Week 30, 2022 - Wentian Module Launches and Arrives at Tiangong.txt
The Wentian module lifting off from Wenchang SLC (left), and undergoing prelaunch processing (right)
On July 24, 2022 (06:22 UTC) the first expansion module of the Tiangong Space Station, Wentian, has successfully launched aboard a Long March 5B rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan, China. The module then arrived at the station just 13 hours later, where the crew of Shenzhou 14 successfully entering it for the first time on the next day. Preparations are currently underway to move the module from its present position on the forward docking port to one of Tianhe's radial docking ports in the following days
You can download the Tiangong Space Station addon to see the space complex grow in Celestia
Source: Spaceflight Now
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting in the past two weeks (July 18 - 30, 2022) by category
The bolide that caused the 1972 Great Daylight meteor seen here severely burnt after its encounter with Earth's atmosphere
The cometary fragment only just a few hours before it exploded over Tunguska in Siberia, Russia in 1908-Jun-30
The red dwarf star looms large over the horizon of its planet, Kepler-438 Ab
Unconfirmed Planets:
Updates
Darwin IV, the primary setting of the acclaimed 1990 novel (Expedition) and 2005 TV special on Discovery Channel (Alien Planet)
The first global maps of Mars taken in B&W by the Mariner probes from 1969 to 1972
WISE is the observatory that discovered C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), aka the Great Comet of 2020
Updates
A distant eclipsing binary star system known as BM Cassiopeiae
The surfaces of Pluto and its moon, Charon, rendered in 3D
levinli303
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1 year ago we should make a new issue.
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago OK...the news for Week 30 will be the last for this issue (currently still under construction). It'll be ready by tomorrow or Saturday at the latest
levinli303
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1 year ago @DaveBowman2001 I still saw <u> and <em> in the file you uploaded.
levinli303
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1 year ago I've made some minor changes and also cross promote my other app for this case.
DaveBowman2001
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1 year ago HTML = Week 32, 2022 - Newest Addons of the Week.txt
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting in the past two weeks (July 31 - August 13, 2022) by category
A large near-Earth asteroid known as 4660 Nereus
Updates
Fixed the rotation bug on SS 433's debris disks
Updates
The Great Comet of 1680, the comet that Newton used to verify Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Kepler-404...System Not Found
Rogue Planets
Updates
The Goa'uld Fleet above Earth
Babylon 5
Star Wars
Stargate
The radio telescopes of the Very Large Array in New Mexico, USA
The OCO-2 satellite in Low Earth Orbit
Updates
Stephenson 2-18, one of the largest known stars ever discovered
A large TNO called (532037) 2013 FY27
levinli303
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1 year ago closing, please create a new issue.
I'm adding a news section in Mobile Celestia (iOS(Mac via Catalyst)/Android), this feature will include two parts
The news will be in a rich format like add-ons, written in HTML. Currently the news will just be What's News for Celestia releases. But I imagine it will be a good place to promote add-ons, scripts, users' guides. since this will be displayed when user launches Celestia, and it is much more discoverable. We can also leverage this to post news about other astronomy news related to Celestia.