Learn Stellarium

Introduction

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your co-ordinates and go.

Educational application and relevance

Stellarium may be used as an educational tool for teaching about the night sky, as an observational aid for amateur astronomers wishing to plan a night's observing, or simply as a curiosity (it's fun!). Because of the high quality of the graphics that Stellarium produces, it is used in some real planetarium projector products. Some amateur astronomy groups use it to create sky maps for describing regions of the sky in articles for newsletters and magazines.

Version

Stellarium Version - 0.12.4

Configuration

No need to configure
Application - Education - Stellarium

Overview of Features

sky

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for 20+ different cultures
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
• realistic Milky Way
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• the planets and their satellites

interface

• a powerful zoom
• time control
• multilingual interface
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
• all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
• telescope control

visualisation

• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• supernovae simulation
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

customizability

• plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
• ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

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Development and community help

Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Johan Meuris
Developer: Bogdan Marinov, Alexander Wolf, Timothy Reaves, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, Florian Schaukowitsch
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.

Working with the application

Functionalities

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Step- 1On opening a new installation of Stellarium, you will be presented with a 60° view of the sky as currently seen from Paris.	Step- 2 At the bottom of the screen you can see additional information describing the location, date and time.
Step- 3 Cardinal indicators located on the horizon show the direction you are facing.	Step- 4 A left mouse click on any object on the screen will display additional information in the top left hand corner of the screen. Right mouse click to clear the selection
Step- 5 Positioning your mouse at the lower left hand corner of the screen will reveal the main tool bars. They automatically disappear when the mouse is moved away. Basic Moves Moving around Stellarium can be accomplished using mouse and keyboard commands. Hold the left mouse button down while moving the mouse to change your orientation. You can also use the cursor keys on your keyboard to change your orientation. Press and hold the keyboard Page Up and Page Down keys to zoom in and out. Press the space bar to centre a selected object. Press the forward slash key “ / ” to quickly zoom in on a selected object. Press the back slash key ” \ “ to return quickly to a 60° field of view.	Step- 6 Setting the Location and Time : Setting the correct location and time must be done before Stellarium can be used to plan an evening’s observations. Press F6 to open the Location Window. Alternatively, click on the Location Window icon in the tool bar. Type the name of the city in the search box, then select it t. Click on “use as default” if you wish to retain the setting the next time Stellarium starts. Close when finished.
Step- 7 The main display should reflect the new location details:	Step- 8 Press F5 to bring up the Date and Time window. Set the time to 8:30 PM.
Step- 9 Time Stellarium also allows us to manipulate time. Press the “L” key 3 times to see the stars move across the sky. Press the “K” key to return time to normal speed. Press the “J” key repeatedly to make time move backwards. Press the “8” key to reset the date and time to current. Press the “7” key to freeze time. If you get lost, remember: The “8” key sets the date and time to current. The “K” key set the simulation to normal speed. Refer to the status bar at the bottom of the screen at any time to check on the date, time, and simulation speed.	Step- 10 Controls for time can also be found on the lower tool bar:
Step- 11Markings : Various grids, lines and markings can be displayed on the celestial sphere. Pressing “e” toggles an equatorial grid:	Step- 12 Pressing “z” toggles the Altitude / Azimuth grid:
Step- 13 Constellation lines and boundaries are toggled on and off using the “b” and “c” keys.	Step- 14 Constellation art can be displayed by using the “r” key.
Step- 15Solar eclipse : I you know date , place and time you can check directly through stellarium . For example : Go-to Location window → type in search box Manado then select and close location window. Go-to date and time window : 1995-10-24 – 09.05.00	Step- 16 Go-tp search Window : type in SUN then zoom in - cntrl+Up or Zoom In(scroll mouse key) Just click on play button on below panel . If you need a increase the time speed click on forward button or L
Step- 17 observe to solar eclipse half sun covered .	Step- 18 Full solar eclipse : upto 12.15pm Total duration of solar eclipse : 3 hours 10 min.

File formats for creation

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Saving the file

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Export and publishing files

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Advanced features

Stellarium Wiki Page

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Steps : Application - Ubuntu Software Centre - search box select and type Stellarium- install
From Terminal	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stellarium
From the web	Stellarium Website
Web based registration	NA

The application on mobiles and tablets

Skymap

References

http://stellarium.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)

How to use template

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