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.

       --safe-mode
           Do not use OpenGL2 features (such as shaders). Useful on systems that report support
           for OpenGL 2, but its implementation is buggy. Used as a work-around for the "broken
           fonts" bug.

       -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).

       -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).

       --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.

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.

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 Gajdosik, Nigel Kerr,
       Andras Mohari, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves, Mike Storm, Diego Marcos, Guillaume
       Chereau, Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti

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