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Link: http://www.rikoooo.com/fr/telechargements/flight-simulator-2004/divers/modifications/real-stars

Download on the page at "Démarrer le téléchargement" and click on one of the two blue and white icons
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( Free but necessary registration )

Translation french --> english :
Real Stars allows to make the stars of the sky in all respects realistic because this add-on shows all the stars of the visible sky to the naked eye.
Quite the stars which you can see were not placed at random: they result from the BRIGHT star CATALOG, 4TH PUBLISHING(EDITION).
9095 stars are so added to FS2004 and it makes all the difference for a beautiful summer night!
ATTENTION :
After the deinstallation of Real stars do not especially forget to restore your former files! Because the fitter does not restore your files of origin.
For a restoration, go to the directory " stars.dat PROTECTION(SAVING) " of FS9 and copy the file " stars.dat " in the main directory of FS9.

Author: Norbert Pachner, Vienna
 
I signed up for the site, downloaded the package, installed it...one file (stars.dat) and WOW WOW WOW. I have never seen so many stars in the sky in my entire life....and I'm talking real world here. I don't know how many stars there are that can actually be seen by the human nekkid eye....but it is no where near what is in this Real Stars package....at least not here in Ohio. Maybe out in the desert where there is little light interference and super clear skies. But it really does take the night sky up several notches. I was using the More Stars (see the Making FS9 Look Great For Free thread up in the subforum area) and it looked great...but pales in comparison to Real Stars.

OBIO
 
Nice little package!
Good to be able to see star formations even an amateur like myself can recognise.
 
On average, under very dark skies on a moonless night with very good seeing ("seeing" refers to the steadiness and clarity of the air) one can see between 6,000 and 8,000 stars. Sadly, light pollution is becoming such a real and serious problem that those conditions, and the breathtaking beauty of a truly star-filled sky, are getting harder and harder to find.

N.
 
Real Stars Install

The file stars.dat overwrites your stock FS2002 or FS2004 stars.dat, and is located in the root directory of your FS install.

This package first came out in 2001 with the Pilot's B314 Clipper, and has been in both Avsim (Real_stars.zip) and Flightsim (rlstars.zip) libraries since 2003.

I've been using it since it came out. It is a really nice addon with no frame rate hit. Also works in GW3 and Silver Wings.

Larry
 
ThinkingManNeil said:
On average, under very dark skies on a moonless night with very good seeing ("seeing" refers to the steadiness and clarity of the air) one can see between 6,000 and 8,000 stars. Sadly, light pollution is becoming such a real and serious problem that those conditions, and the breathtaking beauty of a truly star-filled sky, are getting harder and harder to find.

N.
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We live in the country 50 miles NE of Perth, West Australia and even we get a bit of Perth Pollution on the SW horizon....
 
My father was an avid amature astronomer. As we lived in Western Colorado, light polution was not much of an issue. I've used what he taught me about the constellations and their locations to navigate at night on military ops This is seasonal and time dependent though. My team mates often wonder how it can be done without a compass or lately, a GPS. Winter for me is the best time to see them due to the cold stable air.

As noted, altitude gives one the best perspective and at 10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains they and the Milky Way can be spectacular. In the southern hemisphere one needs to relearn the constellations, but if you can see the Southern Cross (Cruz) and the adjacent Centaurus and the pointer stars Alpha and Beta Centauri you're good to go. Our Aussi and South American friends will agree I'm sure.

I always wondered how the Greeks came up with many of the names and ideas behind the constellations, but after weeks in the field without light on ops, it's easy to see how they did it. They didn't have any TV, board games or computers and star gazing must have occupied a lot more of their time than it does ours!

Thanks for the reminder of the star pack. I failed to install it when changing computers. I'll correct that error tonight.
 
Jagdflieger said:
... ... Winter for me is the best time to see them due to the cold stable air. ... ...
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Nice story Jagdflieger...

I agree, I remember certain winters in Belle Ile en Mer, island in Brittany, "celtic country", and the stunning clarity... And the constellation of Orion, majestically put in the sky.

I also remember a sky in summer, but it was in altitude, french Alps, around 6500 foots... In a small valley,
I had slept outside near the fire giving its last embers, near the tents... I was only fifteen old...
 
Most memorable night sky I ever saw was when I was 14-years old and on a summer vacation on the north shore of Prince Edward Island. The moonless sky was so clear and dark that the stars barely shimmered, and the combined glow of the "relatively" nearby stars and the more diffuse light from the Milky Way was bright enough to cast a faint shadow on light coloured surfaces and you could read a book by starlight without much difficulty.

N.
 
How wonderful those memories are! My father always had a large telescope, usually a reflector type and many nights were spent exploring the heavens.

I'm glad mention was made of Orion the Hunter. My favorite and as the projection of the Earth's equator goes through his belt, he is visable from much of the southern hemisphere as well as the northern hemisphere. He is always a reliable indicator of north when Ursis Major (The Big Dipper) is concealed by clouds. His domain is the winter sky (summer down under) and he is most visable during the hunting seasons. He always portends good luck on the hunt for me and when I leave the house at four or five in the morning to go hunting, I always smile when I see him slaying the lion.
 
fantastic! thanks for the steer guys..... when i go star gazing it's usually on holiday, on Kos..... i'll go up Mt. Dikeos, clear views from up there, and the view down onto the island from up there.... wow! darn it.... 'homesick' now :icon_lol:
 
Houps... My altitude is maybe too high, I can't stop the post combustion... and...
Ho ! Orion...


 
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