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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.
--safe-mode
Do not use OpenGL2 features (such as shaders). Useful on systems that report support for OpenGL 2, but its implementation is buggy.
Used as a work-around for the "broken fonts" bug.
-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).
-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).
--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.
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 ChA~Xreau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Johannes Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves,
Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume ChA~Xreau, Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti
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