The scenery includes hundreds of telescopes around the world.

The scenery especially focuses on the new generation of giants (more than 30m), which are under construction, and will start operation in 2024. These giants are included in the scenery.

Check the documentation for more detailed description and historical information about these telescopes.

This project required a hard work. A few sceneries use google maps photogrammetry import but most of the work consists of building i handcrafted using Sketchup & Blender.

If you like it, please leave a comment to let it know.

Installation :

Delete all your previous folder versions of this package.

I recommend you to use MSFS Addonlinker instead of installing the folders directly in your community folder.

You can activate, with MSFS_AddonLinker, whichever area you want to fly, just make sure you always activate the Common Libraries.

Activating only relevant areas for your flight is better for game performance.

Version 6.0 :

[Update] Black GEM telescope array added in La Silla observatory (Chile)

[New] Orionis Planetarium (France)

[New] Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo (Kosovo)

[New] Tauxigny observatory (Touraine, France)

[New] Observatoire des Makes (Ile de la Réunion, France)

[Update] landing on the 500m telescope (FAST) is now possible

Required libraries :

Download and install the “Dave’s 3D People Library” in your community folder.

Download and install the "Windy Things Library" in your community folder.

Download and install the “Dave’s 3D Animals Library” in your community folder.

Compatibility :

The scenery may conflict (duplicate buildings) with sceneries that place building in the same places.This is especially the case with "We Love VFR" that automatically places antennas, instead of the radiotelescope dishes.

Two work-around are possible :

1. you can either delete SatDishes.bgl file from “We Love VFR” folders.

2. or you can arrange the priority of the "Giant Telescope" folders, as explained in provided documentation.

Upon decompressing I get texture file error message for the "salt" observatory.

6 months ago

szcsongor

To deconflict this addon from others I use the free Bulk Rename Utility to select and rename all the folders by setting the Filters (12) option to only rename Folders, and option Add (7) Prefix set to zzz-

This will automatically rename all the folders very quickly. So for example folder droide-alma becomes zzz-droide-alma.

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

Hope someone finds this useful.

DownedAviator

Thank You!

11 months ago

Ginete

Really great mod

Looks really fancy.

thanks for that

Quassel89

Thank you for all your add on and the great job you do. I was wondering: could you do the "grand four solaire d'Odeillo" in the French Pyrénées montains, which looks pretty much the same as some of your telescopes (I mean about mirrors ans reflectors)?

1 years ago

Chaser67

I love all of your add-ons! But it would be a big help if you told us that Part 2 is just a compilation of existing scenery. I've already downloaded your latest individual files, why do I need this Part 2? Is there something not contained in your individual releases?

fosheem

Wow. Just used this on a group flight and it is fantastic. Thank you so much!

FlightsWithJoel

Hi droide, this add-on is fantastic and the telescopes look beautiful. However I was flying over the Big Island observatories in SU11 and I noticed that the default ground texture still has the photos of the observatories projected on the ground, which really detracts from your models. Is it possible to replace or edit the ground texture in that location? Am I doing something wrong with the installation that leaves the old texture in place?

If you need someone to help with some Photoshop editing work I can help, I just let me know.

Marionettework

These observatories are wonderful, what a fantastic job you (Droide) have done on them. I have had them for a while and see there are no user galleries here. I will fix that if I may. I just completed a glider flight and plan to send a group of people here to download this scenery for a week-end gliding club that I contribute to!

Maverick333rd

Bonjour, et merci pour ce fantastique mod ! Je m'en suis beaucoup servi pour cette video, https://youtu.be/N8gTku4gnwQ 1ere d'une série de quatre qui restent à faire. Encore merci, super boulot !

MisterPepe

Thanks, so convenient now!

goggless

SO many updates! Thank you for all of them. 🎈

2 years ago

Penz

Hey, bro, I found that your series of works have duplicate folder names which will cause conflicts. You need to check these names: "droide-cta", "droide-droideflags"

HenixK

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Foxmike

Hi droide,

So just read the description, in the past you had european telescopes in that pack, right?

And now not anymore?

Or did I missunderstand that?

BTW: Nice stuff 😊

charliebravoAT

i double checked, but no unzip error on my side using 7zip.

You may also find this telescope as standalone here

https://flightsim.to/file/18457/south-african-large-telescope-salt

5 months ago

droide

Hi! I can't find the documentation about the priority of the addons! Am I missing something?

i forgot to put it in the .zip.

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Scotty

Hi, do you have more details on how various addons have naming conflicts in MSFS? I've read about this before but don't recall why this happens a lot. I believe Addons Linker has this renaming function built in.

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Great Addon! Is there a second part? I cannot find it... Thanks!

7 months ago

No second part. Now it's all in one .zip file

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Husker_dingo

The instructions say to download part 2, but there is no part 2 link and as far as I can tell it's all bundled in one file now, I get all the continents from Giant_Telescopes_V54_cumBx.zip.

Thank you for the warning. Yes, flightsim.to policy changed and there is only one single file now.

Thank you for your kind comment

Not so easy to handcraft, but this was a nice proposal

so i made it, and it is now available for download !

https://flightsim.to/file/45257/grand-four-solaire-d-odeillo

Un SAV au top!

Catalina29

If it's not outside the scope of the mod, I'd love to see the giant ionospheric research dishes by Zmiiv, just south of Kharkiv, unfortunately the satellite imagery doesn't cover the area let alone any 3D representation 😞

http://wikimapia.org/6411587/Ionosphere-researching-institute

https://iion.org.ua/en/

Thanks for the recommendation. It could be an idea

rossmum

Awesome work! How about adding my old stomping ground? Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid Deep Space Complexes? They're Radio Telescopes.. 😉

Dan...

dkiewicz

You arer right, part2 is a compilation of sceneries that can be found individually except space telescope which is unique in giant telescopes.

I flew around the Kitt Peak complex today. It's just fabulous, complete with a helipad (that I landed my H145 on). I'll be exploring more than a few of your creations soon...

I did notice two domes that have some kind of texture issue -- the round building beneath the dome are pink checkerboard'd. One is more or less west of the helipad, and the other is near the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMath%E2%80%93Pierce_solar_telescope. Is this an issue on your end or on mine?

Finally: There is a balloon west-ish of the peak. Is that something you did? I love it.

Thank you for your comment.

I'll check these pink textures and solve that, thanks for the warning.

blave

Thank you, i am so happy you like it !

Very useful .csv file for version 5.01. Thanks.

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