I was using FSX, doing UAL862 HKG-SFO, I was flying over the east coast of Japan, and decided to look up at the stars from the outside view. Thanks to AutoStarX, I could not only find constellations and planets, but even navigate by them. I found Orion, one of the first constellations I ever learned, and low and behold...

 

3 Meteors

 

I was watching (at 1X [normal] Speed!) as 3 meteors went in the same direction right through the constellation, all in less than a second. It made my day, because I though they only appeared at 64x and 128x simulation rates, but its true! I saw them at 1x speed. And they looked amazing! Very fluid and realistic looking. I so wish I would've captured a screenshot, but I didn't.

Cool! Happy to see someone get autostars working right. I really have no clue how to get realistic stars with that software.

I probably need to read the manual more carefully.

I just fired it up, set my FSX file location, and made stars! Quite simple for me. But the meteors are not of AutoStar, they're default.

Hi Chris

 

Sorry if this is OT but is there more than one version of Autostar, I downloaded the zip, but when I tried to install it tells me that the visual basic .dll is missing. I went to the Microsoft and basically it's not compatible with windows 7

 

How did you get it going?

 

Regards

 

Alan