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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.

   -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).

   --verbose
       Even more diagnostic output in logfile (esp. multimedia handling).

   -t, --fix-text
       May fix text rendering problems.

   -d, --dump-opengl-details
       Dump information about OpenGL support to logfile. Use this is you
       have graphics problems and want to send a bug report.

   -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).

   --startup-script script
       Specify name of startup script.

   --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.

   --restore-defaults
       Delete existing config.ini and use defaults.

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.

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 Chereau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Johannes
   Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves,
   Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume Chereau, Alexander Wolf, Georg
   Zotti

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