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Celestia is a 3D astronomy program created by Chris Laurel. The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP) and allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction, and at any time in history. Celestia displays and interacts with objects ranging in scale from small spacecraft to entire galaxies in three dimensions using OpenGL, from perspectives which would not be possible from a classic planetarium or other ground-based display.
NASA and ESA have used Celestia in their educational and outreach programs, as well as for interfacing to trajectory analysis software.
Celestia is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Celestia is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
There are three graphical front-ends available: GLUT, GTK+ or Qt.
Celestia's final update came in 2011. Since then, some of its development team have gone to work on either Celestia.sci, a cosmological visualizer or SpaceEngine, a similar software but featuring more realistic graphics.
Celestia was a black metal band from Avignon, France, formed in 1995 by Noktu. Noktu was the only consistent member of the band. Celestia disbanded in 2015.
Celestia remained in the demo stage until around 1999 when they released the EP "A Cave Full of Bats" through Drakkar Productions with a line-up consisting of Noktu (vocals, bass) and Fureïss/Franck (guitar). A few more demos, singles, split albums and a live album were done before they finally released their first full-length album "Apparitia - Sumptuous Spectre" (2002) through Full Moon Productions with the drummer Astreyla added to the line-up. The two main members of Celestia were Noktu and Fureïss. Fureïss was the only guitarist for Celestia from 1998 to 2005, i.e. from the promo tape « A Dying Out Ecstasy » (1998) until the second mix of the 2002 album « Apparitia Sumptuous Spectre » in 2005 and he composed half the songs (the other half by Noktu) and arranged and recorded all the tracks on Celestia during this time.
The current line-up is Noktu (vocals, guitar, bass) and Ghaast (guitar). With the drummer Astreyla, who left the band, they recorded Celestia's second album "Frigidiis Apotheosia : Abstinencia Genesiis" released in 2008 through Apparitia records and generally keeping the same minimalistic black metal sound. Malefic ( Xasthur), a guest on the album, also added some keyboards to the music. Nowadays, various session drummers and guitarists are brought in for rehearsals, recordings and live shows. Noktu also owns a record label called Drakkar Productions, on which he released some of The Black Legions (a group of French underground black metal bands) albums.
Noktu also played in the band Mortifera, doing guitar, bass and vocals, while Neige ( Alcest) handled the drums, half of the vocals and composed tracks such as "Ciel Brouillé" and "Le Revenant". Mortifera has almost the same sound as Celestia. As well, Noktu has played in Genocide Kommando and Gestapo 666.
Celestia is a female given name, which is a variant of Celeste, and which means "heavenly" or "of the sky" in Latin. The name may refer to:
- Celestia De Lamour (born 1950), Vietnamese religious leader
- Celestia Parrish (1853–1918), American educator
- Celestia Shambaugh (1881–1971), American educator
Celestia is a free astronomy computer program.
Celestia may also refer to:
- Celestia (band), a black metal band from Avignon, France
- Mount Celestia, a fictional place in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- 1252 Celestia, a Main-belt asteroid
- Nation of Celestial Space aka Celestia, a micronation created by James Thomas Mangan
- Celestia, a planet in Eternia in Tales of Eternia, a Namco video game
- Celestia, a world in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
- Celestia, a world in the online game Wizard101
- Celestia, a land appearing in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series
- Celestia, an Adventist Christian commune established near Laporte, Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century
- Celestia Ludenberg, a character from the video game'' Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc ''and the associated anime
- Princess Celestia (voiced by Nicole Oliver), a character in the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic