Celestia Portable 1.5.1 has been released. Celestia Portable is the popular planetarium program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can view the universe in 3-D anywhere. It has all the same great features as Celestia including 3-D planet viewing, viewing over 100,000 stars, traveling beyond our galaxy, and more. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Features
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects. Learn more about Celestia...
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Celestia Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Celestia Portable is available for immediate download from the Celestia Portable homepage. Get it today!
Comments
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Thanks for all your work on this Nathan.
Awesome!
Great work, Nathan!
I would like to thank
I would like to thank everyone who first introduced me to portableapps.com, and those that helped me understand how to make a portableapp, I would also like to thank John for this great site, and the effort he puts into making this site what it is today.
Haha
*hands over oscar*
Congrats on your first
Congrats on your first official app Nathan!
Thanks and congrats : )
Thanks and congrats : )
Thanks
Thanks Nathan9222, for all your hard work on Celestia Portable
Nicely done
Good job
Thanks for the work!. Keep it Up!
the stars are within my reach...
now i can finally see whether mankinf\d has really landed on the moon....can i?
PortableApps Installer
Hi, i have a question for you guys @ portableapps.
Why do you guys append an installer to a portable application?
Isn't the whole idea behind a portable app to just be executed without an installation?
I honestly don't see the point in adding an installer to the app.
I think you're shooting yourselves in the foot here.
Thanks and keep it up!