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stellarium

NAME

stellarium - A real-time realistic planetarium

SYNOPSIS

stellarium [options]

DESCRIPTION

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

OPTIONS

--version (or -v)

Print program name and version and exit.

--help (or -h)

Print a brief synopsis of program options and exit.

--config-file name (or -c name)

Use an name for the config filename instead of ``config.ini''.

--user-dir dir (or -u dir)

Instead of using the default user data directory ($HOME/.stellarium on *nix operating systems), use dir.

--full-screen yes|no (or -f yes|no)

With argument yes or no over-rides the full screen setting in the config file. From version 0.10.0 the specified setting will become the default for subsequent invocations of Stellarium.

--screenshot-dir dir

Set the directory into which screenshots will be saved to dir, instead of the default (which is $HOME on *nix operating systems).

--home-planet planet-name

Specify observer planet (planet-name is an English name, and should refer to an object defined in the ssystem.ini file).

--altitude alt

Specify the initial observer altitude, where alt is the altitude in meters.

--longitude lon

Specify the initial observer longitude, where lon is the longitude. The format is illustrated by this example: +4d16'12`` which refers to 4 degrees, 16 minutes and 12 arc seconds East. Westerly longitudes should be prefixed with ''-".

--latitude lat

Specify the initial observer latitude, where lat is the latitude. The format is illustrated by this example: +53d58'16.65`` which refers to 53 degrees, 58 minutes and 16.65 arc seconds North. Southerly latitudes should be prefixed with ''-".

--list-landscapes

Print a list of value landscape IDs and exit.

--landscape id

Start using landscape whose ID (dir name), as seen in the output of --list-landscapes.

--sky-date date

Specify sky date in format yyyymmdd.

--sky-time time

Specify sky time in format hh:mm:ss.

--fov fov

Specify the field of view (fov degrees).

--projection-type p

Specify projection type, p. Permitted values of p are: equalarea, stereographic, fisheye, cylinder, mercator, perspective, and orthographic.

RETURN VALUE

0

Completed successfully.

[other]

Some sort of error.

FILES

Note: file locations on non-*nix operating systems (include OSX) may vary. Please refer to the the Stellarium User Guide for more details, as well as information on how to customise the Stellarium data files.

$HOME/.stellarium/

This is the User Data Directory, which may be over-ridden using command line options. It contains the user's settings, extra landscapes, scripts, and can also be used to over-ride data files which are provided with the default install.

[install prefix]/share/stellarium/

This is the Installation Data Directory. [install prefix] is defined at compile time and will typically be something like /usr or /usr/local.

[user data directory]/config.ini

The main configuration file.

SEE ALSO

celestia(1).

NOTES

Sources of more information:

Websites

Main website: <http://stellarium.org/>

Wiki: <http://stellarium.org/wiki/>

Forums: <http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278769>

Downloads: <https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48857>

Support Requests:

Bug Tracker:

The Stellarium User Guide

Visit the downloads page to get a PDF copy of the Stellarium User Guide.

BUGS

Please report bugs using the bug tracker link in the NOTES section of this page.

AUTHOR

Fabien ChA~Xreau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Johannes Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari.

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HISTORY

on: 2008-08-28, Initial version of this document.