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STELLARIUM(1) 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). --scale-gui scale factor Scaling the GUI according to scale factor. -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 con- fig 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 re- fer to an object defined in the ssystem.ini file. --altitude alt Specify the initial observer altitude, where alt is the altitude in me- ters. --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 ortho- graphic. --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 in- formation 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 pro- vided 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 Direc- tory. $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 Chereau, Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Johannes Gaj- dosik, Nigel Kerr, Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves, Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume Chereau, Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti x14817 24.4.0 2026-08-01 STELLARIUM(1)
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