STELLARIUM
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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
- -v, --version
-
Print program name and version and exit.
- -h, --help
-
Print a brief synopsis of program options and exit.
- -c, --config-file file
-
Use file for the config filename instead of the default config.ini.
- -u, --user-dir dir
-
Use dir instead of the default user data directory ($HOME/.stellarium/
on *nix operating systems).
- --verbose
-
Even more diagnostic output in logfile (esp. multimedia handling).
- -t, --fix-text
-
May fix text rendering problems.
- --scale-gui scale factor
-
Scaling the GUI according to scale factor.
- -d, --dump-opengl-details
-
Dump information about OpenGL support to logfile. Use this is you have
graphics problems and want to send a bug report.
- -f, --full-screen yes|no
-
With argument yes or no over-rides the full screen setting in the
config file. The setting is saved in the config-file and as such will be 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).
- --startup-script script
-
Specify name of startup script.
- --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 landscape names and exit.
- --landscape name
-
Start Stellarium using landscape name.
Refer to --list-landscapes for possible names.
- --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.
- --restore-defaults
-
Delete existing config.ini and use defaults.
RETURN VALUE
- 0
-
Completed successfully.
- not 0
-
Some sort of error.
FILES
Note: file locations on non-*nix operating systems (include
OSX) may vary.
Please refer to the Stellarium User Guide for more details, as well
as information on how to customise the Stellarium data files.
- /usr/share/stellarium/
-
This is the Installation Data Directory set at compile-time.
- $HOME/.stellarium/
-
This is the User Data Directory, which may be over-ridden using command line
option -u. 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.
- $HOME/.stellarium/config.ini
-
The default main configuration file is config.ini. Refer to -c above to
use a different filename and to -u to use a different User Data Directory.
- $HOME/
-
The default screenshot directory. Refer to --screenshot-dir to use a
different path.
SEE ALSO
celestia(1).
NOTES
Sources of more information:
- Websites
-
Main website: <http://stellarium.org/>
Wiki: <http://stellarium.org/wiki/>
Forums: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/forums>
Downloads: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/>
Support Requests: <https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium>
Bug Tracker: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium>
- 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 Chereau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates,
Johannes Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov,
Timothy Reaves, Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume Chereau,
Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti
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