Recent content by paravantis

Although many of us space buffs are likely to have bumped into this before, I take the liberty of posting a link to an amazing YouTube video that shows "a timelapse of Earth in 4K resolution, as imaged by the geostationary Elektro-L weather satellite, from May 15th to May 19th, 2011. Elektro-L...

I have saved all your suggestions and links and thank you all very much! Dimitri, on a visit to Piraeus sometime from October to December of this year, would you be interested in delivering a guest lecture to my Technology class? It usually runs on Tuesdays, 2 to 5 pm.

Here’s more on how I intend to use Orbiter in classes (@boogabooga and other friends who may be interested). Although I am a Civil Engineer by basic degree (National Technical University of Athens) I have become an Environmental/Energy person (PhD & MSc from Northwestern University, Chicago)...

I activated planetarium mode, pressed CONTROL-F9 and confirmed that although constellation lines may be turned on or off, constellation names are always off no matter what I select. Looks like a small bug, hope it is corrected in the future. Thank you both for the time you took to respond!

Thank you francisdrake! You are so right! I learned as much about space flight in the last week (!) as I did in all my previous life! The documentation & the various tutorials are immensely helpful. I found David Courtney's Absolute Beginner Guide particularly helpful...

Many thanks Dimitri! Ευχαριστώ! So nice to find a fellow Greek here too! I too saw your name and involvement in the Orbiter project and wanted to convey my best regards to you!

I just discovered and successfully installed the D3D9 client for Orbiter 2010 (100830). One issue came up: when I toggle the Planetarium Mode (F9) to display the constellations, I have the constellation lines shown but not the constellation labels (i.e. the names of the constellations). Planet...

Stumbling upon Orbiter 2010 was the closest thing to magic - so thought yours truly and my two kids, this past summer. I am excited to be a new member of the community and I shall have you folks know that, as of this coming winter semester, I shall be using Orbiter 2010 to demonstrate space...

Gratitude and wishes for good health from Greece David, I have no words to thank you well enough for your outstanding tutorial videos on Orbiter. I will have you know that this coming fall semester I will be using Orbiter in my "Geopolitics of Technology" class at the University of Piraeus in...