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Obtaining Celestia Educational Activities

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Celestia is a sophisticated program employing advanced graphics. Celestia161-ED runs on many computers but it will not perform satisfactorily on all computers. In general, to experience Celestia161-ED properly, your home or school computers should have the following desired capabilities:

A CPU speed of at least 1 GHz
An operating system running Windows® 98, XP, Vista or Windows 7
A RAM memory of at least 1 GB
An Open GL video graphics card with at least 128 MB of video RAM (256 - 512 MB preferred)
Free memory on your hard drive of at least 4 Gigabytes
A 14” or bigger color monitor, or LCD-LED Projector and screen
Computer sound speakers (optional), preferably with some bass sound
Mouse and keyboard
Apple QuickTime® (available free from here)
Internet connection (optional)
Microsoft Word 2002 or later, or openoffice 3.0 or later

Guarantee: If for any reason you order Celestia Educational Activities and it does not perform properly on your system, we will refund your full purchase price within 60 days of purchase (less shipping fees), upon return of the product CD set or DVD to us.

To Order: Payment is via PayPal, an internet billing service. You do not need a PayPal account. PayPal offers credit card payment options as well.

To order your copy of Celestia Educational Activities, simply click on the buttons below.

Teachers: The complete Celestia Educational Activities series is ideal for use in middle and high school Earth Science and Astronomy, and in introductory college courses in Astronomy.

The series is available as a self-installing 2-CD set or as a self-installing DVD. License installation can be done on individual school computers, or on a single school server that can be accessed from other computers in the school. Directions for installation and individual school computer setup are contained in a separate “Letter to Users and Educators” that is included with the CD or DVD.

Unlike other astronomy software programs that charge thousands of $ dollars for a school-wide license, the school license fee for Celestia Educational Activities is very modest.

For single use on up to five classroom
or teaching computers:

$49.00

For use in a school computer lab or server
on up to 30 computers:

$69.00

For a total school license on an unlimited
number of computers:

$89.00

For District-wide license, email for pricing at: fsgregs@comcast.net.

+ Shipping: $4.00 domestic; $6.00 international per CD/DVD

Home or personal use: The complete Celestia Educational Activities series is available as a self-installing 2-CD set or as a self-installing DVD for a nominal fee. The installation is quick and trouble-free, and involves no downloading or file and directory manipulation.

For single use on up to five home
or laptop computers:

$29.00

+ Shipping: $4.00 domestic; $6.00 international per CD/DVD

If you cannot afford the license fee, the creators of Celestia Educational Activities have made them available for free, from the Celestia add-on website at:

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/educational.php.

Since the Activities contain 2.8 GB of data files, Installation will involve sequential downloads of 14 large zipped files, plus unzipping and sequential installation into specific Celestia directories on your computer. Directions are on that website.