Celestia/Tutorials/Galaxies

This is how to create a galaxy. Galaxies are very big objects of the universe and you can create them in celestia this tutorial shows you how to create a galaxy in celestia.

But first, you need a .dsc file. To do this you need to make a plain text file .txt into a dsc file .dsc

The basics

Name

The name of your galaxy.

Galaxy "Alcyoneus"

Type

The type of your galaxy

Type "E4"

RA and Dec

You should know what these are right? Ra and dec are in hours for Galaxies

RA 24.26925892

Dec -75.27826963

Radius

The radius of the galaxy.

Radius 2.56e5

AbsMag

The absolute magnitude of your galaxy.

AbsMag 17.16

Distance

How far away your galaxy is from earth.

Distance 3.56e9

Additional features

Axis(only for spiral galaxies)

Changes the axis of the galaxy.

Axis [0.1 0.2 0.3]

Angle(only for spiral galaxies)

Changes the angle of the galaxy.

Angle 20

Infourl

Adds an url to the galaxy

Infourl[Website.link]

Example

Here is an example of the galaxy Alcyoneus.

Galaxy "Alcyoneus { Type "E4" RA 22.3852992 Dec 14.39628872 Distance 3.56e9 Radius 2.52e5 }

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