LXer: Track the night sky with Stellarium on Fedora

LXer · 10-08-2015, 01:31 PM

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Ever looked up at the night sky and tried to identify specific*celestial bodies out of the millions you can see? Stellarium is an awesome open source planetarium application available in Fedora to help you identify and track objects in the...

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John VV · 10-08-2015, 06:31 PM

Stelliarium is a good program

--full disclosure
i am a bit biased some of my work in in the program

but is is a good program
the "bzr" clone is what i normally run

http://stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Bzr_checkout

Habitual · 10-08-2015, 07:09 PM

It rocks for 'distractions'

I just wish it could 'track' what shows here locally in the sky in the program in "real time",
like an observatory...?
Maybe I missed something...

John VV · 10-09-2015, 12:57 PM

satellites can be added
there are a lot of them

http://stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Plugins

273 · 10-10-2015, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Habitual

It rocks for 'distractions'

I just wish it could 'track' what shows here locally in the sky in the program in "real time",
like an observatory...?
Maybe I missed something...

I thought that was what it did?

John VV · 10-10-2015, 02:26 PM

real time as in
"the slooh virtual telescope "

it is a planetarium program using QT