Bug#170824: RFA: celestia -- realtime visual space simulation

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

 I'm looking for someone who wishes to adopt celestia.  I'm not really
 using the program lately and I'm sure it's suffering because of that.
 Development upstream is very active and Chris Laurel is very
 cooperative.  There's some half-done GTK 2 port in the Debian packages
 which needs to be finished and submitted upstream.  Other than that,
 it's pretty much ok.

    Description: A real-time visual space simulation, GTK+ frontend
     Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space.  Choose a point
     within the Local Group of galaxies, and Celestia will show you an
     approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you actually
     there.  Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily
     hypothetical--the farther away from Earth you get, the less real
     data there is and the more guesswork is involved.  Thus Celestia
     supplements observational data with good guesses based on models of
     stellar and planetary processes.

     Celestia is unique in its ability to allow you to navigate at an
     immense range of scales.  Orbit a couple kilometers above the
     surface of a tiny, irregular asteroid, then head off towards
     Jupiter, watching it grow from a bright point of light into a
     looming sphere filling your field of vision.  Leave our solar
     system entirely and observe the sun as it fades from a brilliant
     disk to a bright star, disappearing almost entirely as you head off
     toward the Upsilon Andromeda system to orbit around its innermost
     giant planet.

 Thanks,

 Marcelo