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
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
szcsongor
Hi! I can't find the documentation about the priority of the addons! Am I missing something?
6 months ago
i forgot to put it in the .zip.
6 months ago
droide
Scotty
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.
6 months ago
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.
6 months ago
Marionettework
DownedAviator
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
7 months ago
droide
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.
7 months ago
Thank you for the warning. Yes, flightsim.to policy changed and there is only one single file now.
7 months ago
droide
Marionettework
Thank You!
11 months ago
Ginete
Really great mod
Looks really fancy.
thanks for that
11 months ago
Thank you for your kind comment
11 months ago
droide
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
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
1 years ago
droide
Chaser67
Un SAV au top!
1 years ago
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/
1 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation. It could be an idea
1 years ago
droide
rossmum
Awesome work! How about adding my old stomping ground? Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid Deep Space Complexes? They're Radio Telescopes.. 😉
Dan...
1 years ago
dkiewicz
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?
1 years ago
You arer right, part2 is a compilation of sceneries that can be found individually except space telescope which is unique in giant telescopes.
1 years ago
droide
fosheem
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.
1 years ago
Thank you for your comment.
I'll check these pink textures and solve that, thanks for the warning.
1 years ago
droide
blave
Wow. Just used this on a group flight and it is fantastic. Thank you so much!
1 years ago
Thank you, i am so happy you like it !
1 years ago
droide
FlightsWithJoel
Very useful .csv file for version 5.01. Thanks.
1 years ago
Catalina29