Thank you, Jelenedra I will keep my sims from getting a gold badge until there is a working fix. 

If you don't have the patch how does the gold sewing badge effect the game? I haven't downloaded it yet.  Will it bork my game if I have a sim with a gold badge make clothing without the patch?

TwoJeffs' hack is the one that I have also.  I wasn't sure if that counted as a hacked telescope or not.
Thank you for the clarification.

I tried playing another house and they could stargaze with no problems. I will have to check the previous house again.

ETA: I have also notice more Its raining/snowing activity again.  Is anyone else having this problem?
I had the hack to fix this I am not sure it is working now.

I have the higher abduction odds hack is that the same as a hacked telescope?
I have the updated for FT version but if that is causing my problem I will delete it.

I don't have the Summon Aliens option with this sim, I was just trying to get him to stargaze period and he kept jumping back from the telescope. 
I tried it with both of the telescopes that come with the game and didn't have any luck getting him to stargaze.

I am experiencing a bug when I try to get my Sim to stargaze in either telescope, they start to look through it and then jump back and stop.  I have gotten two messages
saying that I found a new planet. That is all well and good but I was hoping for an abduction and I can't get them to stay at the telescope long enough to build any skill
much less be abducted.
I am also noticing that when my Sims use the exercise bike their temp meter starts to immediately go in the red.  They don't seem to be overheating yet but I was wondering
if anyone else has experienced this. Thanks.

That is all that I have showing up are the original Maxis ones.   
I just did a clean uninstall and reinstall not too long ago (about a month ago) and they have never shown up in my game ever. 
The roof recolors that I have are from different sites so I know it isn't just one download that is no good. 
All of my other downloads show up in my game, and I have never had a problem with them, except for the occasional hair download that I forget to get a mesh for . 
The roofs are the only ones that refuse to show up.

Does anyone have any more ideas about my question?  I installed CEP again just to make sure and my roof recolors still aren't showing up. 
I am not sure what I am doing wrong for none of them to be there.  Thanks again!

Yep, sure do! I think I have the latest version but just to make sure I am going to check.  But I know that I had the latest version compatible with the
EP I had when I downloaded the recolors.
And thanks for all the replies so far!!

No they are not there.  I only have the original maxis ones showing up.    None of the ones that I have ever downloaded show up.

Yes,  I have looked there and I put the recolors in the downloads folder, I have all Ep and Sp except for H&M.  I have downloaded roof recolors every once in a while since I got the original Sims 2 game but none of my roof recolors show up.  All of my other downloads do and I haven't had any conflicts when I install a new pack.  I wasn't sure if it was something that I am doing or what.  When I go in to choose the color roof I want all I have is the original maxis roof colors and not all of the recolors I have downloaded came from the same site they were from different sites  Thanks!

Hi, I have a question concerning roofs recolors. I have downloaded some roofs and they do not show up in my
game.  Are they supposed to be in another folder besides the download folder?  Thanks for any and all help!