Welcome to the Stellarium Guide!

 

We are group of undergraduate students from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, who have come together to kickstart a project for a more illustrative beginner user guide to Stellarium.

 

For those who wants a more detailed guide, you can go to this website @ http://www.stellarium.org

 

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What is Stellarium?

 

According to Stellarium.org, 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. 

 

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How to install Stellarium?

 

  Step 1: Ensure that that your system meets the minimum system requirements.

 

• Linux/Unix;Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista; MacOS X 10.3.x or greater.

• A 3D graphics card with a support for OpenGL.

• A dark room for realistic rendering - details like the Milky Way or star twinkling

can’t be seen in a bright room.

• Minimum of 256 MiB RAM, 1 GiB or more required for the largest star catalogues.

 

                                                                                                                                                       (Courtesy of Stellarium.org) 

 

 

  Step 2: Download the software from http://www.stellarium.org

 

 

 

  Step 3: Install the Software

 

         Windows: 

 

     1. Choose to Run or Save "stellarium-0.10.2.exe"

 

                                                                                                 

     

      2. Follow the on-screen instructions. 

 

                              

 

 

  3.  You are ready to run Stellarium!

 

 

 

     MacOS X:  

 

1. Locate the stellarium-0.10.2.dmg file in finder and double click on it, or open it using the disk copy program.

 

2. Have a browse of the readme file, and drag Stellarium to the Applications folder (or somewhere else if you prefer).

                                                           

3. Note that it is better to copy Stellarium out of the .dmg file to run it - some users have reported problems when running directly from the .dmg file.

 

 

   Linux:  

 

                                                  Check if your distribution has a package for Stellarium already - if so you’re probably best off using it.

If not, you can download and build the source. See the wiki for detailed instructions.

 

 You can now proceed on to the user guide page.

 

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