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14-06-2008, 05:06 PM
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| | | Stellarium
Hi,
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.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Great for beginners like me! and anyone else for that matter. Stellarium |
15-06-2008, 06:55 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bewdley
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| | | Re: Stellarium
This looks like it could be a lot of lot of fun!
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15-06-2008, 07:05 PM
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It is a great piece of free software! going to try it out again later! |
30-06-2008, 09:15 AM
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This looks like fun. I will have a look myself and pass it on to my dad who is an amateur astronomer. |
30-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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Has anyone seen any shooting stars yet?!? It was really cool to see one using stellarium the other night! 
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02-07-2008, 08:42 PM
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Just had a mooch around on it tonight. The graphics are fantastic and the fact that its in real time too is great. What I really want to know is that when you zoom up on the sun, are the sunspots the actual sunspots at the moment. I will keep looking back to see!
Great resource especially when you need to see just what planet in near to any other object. Very, very useful. |
03-07-2008, 07:03 PM
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What a great piece of software, even more brilliant seeing as it's free. Quote:
Originally Posted by steve_nova  What I really want to know is that when you zoom up on the sun, are the sunspots the actual sunspots at the moment. I will keep looking back to see!
| I don't think so, seeing as the Sun's blank at the moment. |
05-07-2008, 02:14 PM
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Yes, I have now animated the sun through progression and its a loop  | | |
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