Stellarium, a little observatory..
10 Jul 2005 23:15:22 UTC
Topic 189520
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I found this little program, a computer observatory for us, who don't own a telescope or have access to an oberservatory, Stellarium, which I downloaded and it looks really good!
Look at the screenshots! I have configured it to my place, so now I don't care if it's cloudy or rainy, I can always see the nightsky!!!
Stellarium, a little observatory..
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You may be interested to know that I used some data from Stellarium to help create the E@H screen saver. After poking around their code a little bit (it's open source!) I found a file that told me what stars are part of the constellations and more importantly what pairs of stars needed lines drawn between them. I did not use any of their code, but truthfully once I had a list of the stars the original coding was trivial.
Thank you Stellarium.
I concur - if your interested
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I concur - if your interested in Astronomy you should take a look at this excellent little program!