# Created 2024-04-12 ven. 19:18
#+title: 7d.nz
#+author: Phil. Estival
* • [2005-01-09 dim.] Celestia — Fading Suns              :code:space:opengl:
Celestia is a great open source space
simulation, and a very good program to learn
about astronomy and realtime 3D renderings.

I did a short stay as a trainee in an astrophysics
lab called the GAM (Groupe Astroparticule de
Montpellier).  They asked me for the rack of
pizzas they were computing dark matter simulations
on to be supervised through SNMP and the MIBs and
I must admit I did a poor job with Perl for that[fn::It's probably not with the help of these
scripts that they did get the mass of the
universe. However, seeing how far Munin monitoring
went with Perl makes it stands as a good candidate
for that job].

I also remember the guys in the lab who were
literraly sweating Fortran by that time.

While in some of my spare time and when I wasn't
writing and playing roleplaying games, did I learn
how Celestia works and then made this mod.

It was first published on w3.fadingsuns.tk (down
for long now) and recorded in the Selden's List of
Resources for Celestia.

While it's packaged for Windows only (sorry), It
could run by simply uncompressing the archive
in the directory of an other OS's installation.

Celestia-Fading Suns Edition 🚀