STELLARIUM(1)

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/local/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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