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6 stellarium - A real-time realistic planetarium
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9 stellarium [OPTIONS]
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12 Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real
13 time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.
14 With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes,
15 binoculars or a small telescope.
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18 -v, --version
19 Print program name and version and exit.
20 -h, --help
22 Print a brief synopsis of program options and exit.
23 -c, --config-file file
25 Use file for the config filename instead of the default config.ini.
26 -u, --user-dir dir
28 Use dir instead of the default user data directory
29 ($HOME/.stellarium/ on *nix operating systems).
30 --verbose
32 Even more diagnostic output in logfile (esp. multimedia handling).
33 -t, --fix-text
35 May fix text rendering problems.
36 -d, --dump-opengl-details
38 Dump information about OpenGL support to logfile. Use this is you
39 have graphics problems and want to send a bug report.
40 -f, --full-screen yes|no
42 With argument yes or no over-rides the full screen setting in the
43 config file. The setting is saved in the config-file and as such
44 will be the default for subsequent invocations of Stellarium.
45 --screenshot-dir dir
47 Set the directory into which screenshots will be saved to dir,
48 instead of the default (which is $HOME on *nix operating systems).
49 --startup-script script
51 Specify name of startup script.
52 --home-planet planet-name
54 Specify observer planet. planet-name is an English name, and should
55 refer to an object defined in the ssystem.ini file.
56 --altitude alt
58 Specify the initial observer altitude, where alt is the altitude in
59 meters.
60 --longitude lon
62 Specify the initial observer longitude, where lon is the longitude.
63 The format is illustrated by this example: +4d16'12" which refers
64 to 4 degrees, 16 minutes and 12 arc seconds East. Westerly
65 longitudes should be prefixed with "-".
66 --latitude lat
68 Specify the initial observer latitude, where lat is the latitude.
69 The format is illustrated by this example: +53d58'16.65" which
70 refers to 53 degrees, 58 minutes and 16.65 arc seconds North.
71 Southerly latitudes should be prefixed with "-".
72 --list-landscapes
74 Print a list of landscape names and exit.
75 --landscape name
77 Start Stellarium using landscape name. Refer to --list-landscapes
78 for possible names.
79 --sky-date date
81 Specify sky date in format yyyymmdd.
82 --sky-time time
84 Specify sky time in format hh:mm:ss.
85 --fov fov
87 Specify the field of view (fov degrees).
88 --projection-type p
90 Specify projection type, p. Permitted values of p are: equalarea,
91 stereographic, fisheye, cylinder, mercator, perspective, and
92 orthographic.
93 --restore-defaults
95 Delete existing config.ini and use defaults.
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98 0 Completed successfully.
99 not 0
101 Some sort of error.
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104 Note: file locations on non-*nix operating systems (include OSX) may
105 vary. Please refer to the Stellarium User Guide for more details, as
106 well as information on how to customise the Stellarium data files.
107 /usr/share/stellarium/
109 This is the Installation Data Directory set at compile-time.
110 $HOME/.stellarium/
112 This is the User Data Directory, which may be over-ridden using
113 command line option -u. It contains the user's settings, extra
114 landscapes, scripts, and can also be used to over-ride data files
115 which are provided with the default install.
116 $HOME/.stellarium/config.ini
118 The default main configuration file is config.ini. Refer to -c
119 above to use a different filename and to -u to use a different User
120 Data Directory.
121 $HOME/
123 The default screenshot directory. Refer to --screenshot-dir to use
124 a different path.
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127 celestia(1).
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130 Sources of more information:
131 Websites
133 Main website: <http://stellarium.org/>
134 Wiki: <http://stellarium.org/wiki/>
136 Forums: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/forums>
138 Downloads: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/>
140 Support Requests: <https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium>
142 Bug Tracker: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium>
144 The Stellarium User Guide
146 Visit the downloads page to get a PDF copy of the Stellarium User
147 Guide.
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150 Please report bugs using the bug tracker link in the NOTES section of
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154 Fabien Chereau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Johannes
155 Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves,
156 Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume Chereau, Alexander Wolf, Georg
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