Quote from Astrella on 08/11/09 at 10:29:18:Hi group,
i'm Astrella from Germany. If we have clear skies i like viewing the sky through my Meade LX200 12" in my backyard observatory.
Yesterday i got a question, how our solar system will behave, if one of this planets would vanish.
Well, i found Tony and his fine program. But i had no fun with the program. The program could be startet only once. The second time i got only a black background and it could not be closed the normal way by clicking the close button.
So i registered here and found the beta thread. I downloaded feb version 2009 and its an amazing peace of software Tony created.
Thanks Tony, i already could show a friend what happens when e.g. Jupiter would be removed from our solar system.
Hi Astrella. Welcome!
I regularly use LX200s. I have access to my university's observatory which is a 10 minute walk from my house. We have 2 LX200 12" and an LX200 16". But skies here are usually overcast, and light pollution is a big problem. It was cloudy last night, so I missed the Saturn ring plane crossing.
As you found out, Gravity Simulator 2.0 doesn't work well with European versions of Windows. That's because they store numbers using commas instead of periods for decimals. But the Beta version solves this problem. Any time you perform an experiment, post the results here!