Talk:Celestia

Please provide feedback
It'd really be nice if there were some indication that I'm not talking to myself. I know there are others who could comment or contribute. Please do! ...Selden 12:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

You are not talking to yourself, I use your guidebook all the time both at work, and for hobby projects. Thanks very much for the time you've put into it. Selden: please remove this comment, after you've seen it. I would have commented on the web forum but it's dead, I can host the form if needed.

In case you're unfamiliar with WikiBook conventions: ...Selden 13:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * comment = edit any of the "discussion" pages, including this one.
 * if you're really uncomfortable doing that, you could post a message to the Celestia Web forum in the WikiBook thread at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11491

document improvements

 * "ESA Avanced Concepts Team overview of design tools" link is broken.


 * That page seems to have disappeared when they reorganized the site. I don't know why. The page is still available on the Internet Archive site. I've provided a link to the Archive  ...Selden 18:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * "Discover magazine letter" doesn't seem to mention Celestia.


 * The link has been removed:


 * http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jan/letters/ - Discover magazine letter

Page Naming Conventions and Breadcrumbs
I've moved the Celestia pages which contained colons in their names so that now they have slashes (/) instead. While this might cause some problems for off-site links to the pages (e.g. google) I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

WikiBooks has been encouraging a revised page naming convention: Instead of including colons, names of pages should include slashes (/) to separate the parts of the name which refer to the "parent" pages in the book's hierarchy.

When slashes are used, the WikiMedia software automatically generates a "trail of breadcrumbs" at the top of each page, linking to all of its parent pages.

Many of the pages of this Guide to Celestia used to contain manually generated breadcrumbs using inconsistent formats and locations. I've been deleting them in favor of the automatically generated breadcrumbs. I've also made a request in the "Staff Lounge" for a breadcrumb template so that they can be semi-automatically included elsewhere on pages. Apparently this functionality will be available quite soon. ...Selden 14:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Change of book's informal name
I changed Celestia User's Guide and Reference to Guide to Celestia a while ago because "User's Guide" is in the name of Frank Gregorio's document describing how to use Celestia. I thought it'd be best to avoid any possible confusion between the two. ...Selden 21:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

New section: where to get data for catalog files
Hi, I think it might be useful to add a new section that details where to find data that can be used in SSC, STC, and DSC files. For example, NASA's JPL Small-Body Database Browser has orbital elements for use in SSCs, while SIMBAD is useful for STCs and DSCs. Any thoughts? LukeCEL (discuss • contribs) 04:06, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Celestia Forum Thread
Might as well note here that, since early 2019, there has been some discussion about the Wikibook in this thread on the Celestia Forums. SevenSpheresCelestia (discuss • contribs) 22:46, 27 February 2020 (UTC)