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 "Orion" 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 6.56e5 AbsMag The absolute magnitude of your galaxy. AbsMag 18.19 Distance How far away your galaxy is from earth. Distance 19.56e9 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 a 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 } This is my first wikibook page btw