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The Expanded Orion's Arm Universe in Celestia Format

To see many more of the worlds of the Orion's Arm Universe in 3D, download Celestia and the Orion's Arm Universe Add-on;

Celestia is a free program available from http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ ; it is a real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, or to any of over 100,000 stars taken from the Hipparchos catalogue, (unfortunately this rules out most binary stars from appearing in the current database) or even to other galaxies (which are rendered as misty patches, just like the real thing to the unaugmented eye. There are downloads available to increase the number of stars in the database, based on various estimates and guesses; the area modelled is roughly the same as the Terragen Sphere in Orion's Arm, especially when extended by the add-on downloads; and best of all you can model your own planets. Examples of my first attempts can be seen in the pages on some of the worlds; Nova Terra (Tau Ceti II), Penglai, Bolobo, Anomie, Ribblehead, and Ceres. Others since added include 55 Cancri, Ain Soph Aur (Delta Capricorni), Amalthea, Atlantis (Zeta 1 Reticuli II) Deucalion, Panthalassa, Ozymandias, Trees

3D models (of spacecraft or habitats for instance) can be imported into this world, and set on orbits or trajectories which will take them to the various real and imaginary worlds, and the time can be advanced to far into the future to show astronomical and (if you put them there) even historical events.

The people at the Celestia forum also seem keen to help in modifications for various uses, including animation (there is a movie function, although the resulting files are somewhat large,they can be reduced in size later by other software.).

Celestia is open source under a General Public License (GPL) which means you can copy and distribute source code under certain conditions, which mostly seems to be providing the full source code in any modified product, and credit being given for the use of the images and textures. As it is likely to be a useful tool in the continuing creation of the various OA ventures the easiest way to do that is to refer interested parties to the Celestia home page.

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Download it here

Download CelestiaVersion Version 1.4.0 prerelease first; Celestia for windows
Celestia Version 1.4.0 prerelease for Mac OS

Joe Bolte at the Celestia Motherlode has given us a page to display the various Orion's Arm downloads

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New; Clickable CEL:URLs!

Once you have downloaded both Celestia and the OA addons packages (unzip them into the folder inside Celestia called 'extras') you can visit the worlds of Orion's Arm. The easiest way to do this is to click on the links below.
Click on the Star name to go to the star or planet concerned (Celestia will open automatically)

Bet Com    for Arcadia , Crocus, Chloe, Daphnis, Dryas, Smilax, Adonis, Diana, Cynthia, Pan, Doris and Galatea(by Anders Sandberg)

Gam Pav for Zarathustra, (by Anders Sandberg) Ahura Mazda and Mithra

JD 870135    for To'ul'h, (by Anders Sandberg) and the alien planets Shthossaa and Th'aa'ssoo
(The cluster NGC 6633 is nearby)

Pi3 Ori     for Daedalus and the unnamed worlds Pi3Ori I,II,III,V,and VI (by Anders Sandberg)

YTS 453 09440 3 for the Dreamsphere ;

Zet Ser for the Oikomene Dyson Swarm (and more Dreamspheres) (by M Alan Kazlev)

Pen-y-ghent for Ribblehead, Gravel, Turner, Whernside, Shadrach, Mezach and Hackenbush

RHO1 Crc    for Danzig, Kiel, Rostok and Lubeck

HD 222404 for Silence and Anomie

JD 98738 for Panthalassa and Amorica

HD 207129 for Bolobo, Digit, Stapledon, Struthios, Roanoke, Galapolis, Aung San Suu Kyi

HD 2071 for Deucalion (note red and green alternate surfaces) and Pandora

HD 135842 for Newlyn and Lamorna; this is the Zennor system

Zet1 Ret for Icarus, Atlantis, Daedalus, Prometheus, Hayek, Max, Doc Halloway, Natasha

HD 13445 for Secharia, which orbits the already discovered exoplanet "b"

HD 74712 for Ozymandias, Castleregh and the moon Mary

JD 9802-8 for Oshiq and Noarchos

HIP 63469 for Sisyphos

Achird A for Achird b and its moon Diwali

JD 76601 for Guanche, Canaria, Gomera and Fueteventura

Gliese 876 for Hartebeeste, an already discovered exoplanet 'b', and the inhabited moon Aardwolf

Psi Ser for Daffy,(by Anders Sandberg) Bugs, Coyote, Fudd and Speedy

Enigma star for Stanislaw (by Stephen Inness)

HD 211415 star for Audubon, Tradescant and Linnaeus

Caph star for Nineveh and Tyre (cinder worlds)

Keid A star for Twilight (by Anders Sandberg) and Shadows

HIP 85647 star for Dante and Beatrice

56 Aur star for Dionysos, and it's moon Pan (by Anders Sandberg)

Del Pav star for Darwin (by Anders Sandberg), Wallace and Huxley

Cantor for Chorus, the unnamed planets Cantor a, b, c, e, f, and the orbital Greenring, and other habitats (by Stephen Inniss)

Tau Ceti for Nova Terra, Zeus, Hermes, Poseidon, Hades, Styx, Tartarus, Persephone , several asteroids and other habitats (by Anders Sandberg)

DEL Cap for the Ain Soph Aur system, (by Todd Drashner); this includes a dyson swarm, and several artificial gas giant-like worlds, including Carter, Varun, Rassilon, Node Godel,Node Esher,
Yudkowsky, Moravec, Yu-tang, Da Costa, Luwei,Yorvik, Eforwick, Ebor, Socrates, Erastothenes, Sagan, Hume, Euclid, Aquinas, Chomsky, Hoyle, Schrodinger, Gutenberg, Solon, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Van De Graaf

Hip 91438 for the Ecotopia Capital world, with a dyson swarm, the Wald (a collection of Dyson Trees) and 292 artificial Earthlike worlds(yes, 292- there should be 312 but I got bored) (by Todd Drashner)

20 lmi for the Halcyon System, with Rama, Cronos, Bright, Tiamat (by Todd Drashner)

nu2 lup for New Root, Ordered Light,Harmonic Path, and the New Root grid (by Todd Drashner)

Hiederia for Redunin, Grishelda, Barish, the Garibald spaceport, and the Chrome box world (by M Alan Kazlev)

Rana for the twin planets Bill and Bull (by Anders Sandberg), Sabrina, Mame, and Gilda

HIP 14058 for Pluton and Croesus

JD 836901 for Wurm, Riss, Mindel and Gunz

JD 836902 For Niuearth, Alto, Mesto, Largo and Multo

Sadalmelik for Daleth Orbital, the Karoo bishop rings, Asterix and Obelix

JD 10012 for Muuhhome, Muuhome Primary and several unamed moons

JD 10013 for Harmonic Resonance and Morphic Resonance

EG 471 for the Ouaddai ringworld

Arkab Prior B for the AIB Necklace (several bishop rings)

Sigma Draconis for Penglai, Carp, Turtle, Dragon (by Anders Sandberg

HD 3823 for Trees (by Anders Sandberg), Clouds, Storms, Dust, Rocks and Vapours.

If you have downloaded the Impossible Dyson addon, you can go to 18 Sco to see it outside and inside

Also included is a 3d overlay for Betelgeuse, a model of NGC 6633 (an open cluster near To'ul'h)
and Castor (using Grant Hutchinson's data for this system, except I have made all four main stars class A stars, which is the conventional representation- I expect Grant's version is more accurate, of course...

There are about 250 planets included in this package,not counting the Ecotopia labworlds; with them there are about 500;
Also included are dozens of spacecraft, habitats and other objects; you will have to find them by right-clicking on the planets to see if there are any satellites, or by using the Solar System Browser. One version of each spacecraft or habitat can be found by clicking on the name of the designer below.
The spacecraft are from designs by John.M.Dollan, Todd Drashner, Michael Capriola, Tony Jones, myself, and from a concept by Eric Lo.
The habitats are based on concepts by Forrest Bishop, Gerard K O'Neill, J D Bernal, Freeman Dyson, Paul Birch, Larry Niven and Iain M Banks.

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