Updated by one of our Haiku users and one of it's developers Alexander V. Wolf, Stellarium 25.2 for 64bit Haiku.
Updated by one of our Haiku users and one of it's developers Alexander V. Wolf, Stellarium 25.2 for 64bit Haiku.
Hello floss.social!
I've recently joined from fosstodon having previously been a first-timer to the fediverse on linuxrocks.online in around 2021.
I am a #manjaro, '#Debian and #FreeBSD user and my workflow comprises mainly of #kicad #arduino #stellarium and #kstars yes, there's a theme developing!
I am recently retired having been a Project Manager in IT
I drink #realale and follow #StockportCounty .
I do tend to post some #UKpolitics
Feel free to say hello and consider a follow..
There's an interesting Moon/planetary alignment in the skies early morning Friday, before sunrise. It's hardly the "Smiley Face" clickbait you may have read, but it still looks cool. If you're up around 5 am looking East, this is what it looks like from Westport. https://ow.ly/2qFf50VH9Rf
Any Stellarium scripting experience out there?
I’d like to try my hand, but I feel like there's a gaping hole in my skillset when I look at the documentation.
I'm not a coder, but I’m good at figuring things out–I just want to know how deep the water is before I dive in.
Can I take a pre-existing script, tweak/add/remove stuff, and expect it to work? Or is some kind of compiling necessary?
Questions about the depth of my ignorance are encouraged - Good teaching requires knowledge of the student
Some examples of the kind of things I want to do:
- Have some basic startup files that set different locations/projections/landscapes and visibility of planets/stars/satellites, so I can quickly load a bunch of settings to demonstrate concepts
- Have an absolutely clean startup interface (e.g., no GUI, just the ground and the sky) for when I use the program, and a “learner’s” interface with the basic controls visible at all times
- Start at one location with high light pollution, look around, then move to another location with good seeing and look around. Captions as we go.
- Still thinking about this: Some kind of script that shows the best times to view planets over a school year. This one is for when I'm encouraging Grade 9 teachers to talk about astronomy throughout the year, as opposed to the remaining time before the exam period. (e.g. This year, I really tried to encourage them to spend 15 minutes or so back in January to see planets that aren't easily visible now)
I'm sure some of that is not covered under scripting, but I have my fingers crossed.
I'm especially interested in hearing from people who don't know the difference between a div and a class and an object, as I clearly don’t, but managed to cobble some of their own scripts together in spite of that
I'd be very thankful for boosts for reach.
I installed Stellarium on my computer, a free open source planetarium software.
It looks impressing, and like all advanced tools it will need some time to understand how it works.
so simuliert #stellarium das Maximum der partiellen #Sonnenfinsternis morgen von 11:33 Uhr bis 13:07 Uhr über #Berlin
#sofi #sofi2025
Qué difícil es explicar que no hay nada de lo que se afirma en tantos titulares. Cuando se lo explico a algún medio no me creen. ¿Por qué habrían de confiar en un enterado como yo cuando lo dicen todos los medios, todas las agencias, todos los influencers de mierda?
Y mientras el cielo esta tarde:
(pantallazo de #Stellarium
The #opensource project #Stellarium was a big part of my MAEd final project in 2008, where I focused on #science education with #FOSS. So glad to see the app thriving and with a web browser version! See when you might get a glimpse at the alignment of 7 planets this week https://stellarium-web.org
@ORB_KSB if you're curious about this, check out insanely awesome #FOSS free open source software #stellarium where you can see exactly where to look and when
https://stellarium.org/
@rspfau The #Stellarium app is great on an #Android device. It is very easy to find celestial objects at night
Space/Astronomy News
Panic ye not! Saturn has re-emerged from behind the moon!
Space/Astronomy News
Saturn has just been occulted by the moon (from a UK/Plymouth persepective). It will reappear in around an hour, unless something happens...
Taking some inspiration from today's #APOD, here I've used #Stellarium to simulate the apparent trajectory of the #Sun if it were photographed at the beginning of each month at midday where I live during this whole year. The characteristic figure-of-eight path is called an #Analemma. The individual frames were made into an #AnimatedGif using #Gimp.
Here’s a simulation of an #analemma for my location for the #Sun at midday on the first day of each month in 2025. Produced with #Stellarium and #Gimp.
Animación #Stellarium de #Saturno entre 2024 y 2026 mostrando el cruce por el plano de los anillos (23/03/2025), preparada para última charla #CieloDelMes de @astrosevilla
No será observable dada la proximidad a la conjunción.
Sin embargo, el 29/11/2025...
Routine für den späten Nachmittag: #Stellarium öffnen, und nachschauen, wann und wo genau ich den Kometen auch heute wieder nicht sehen werde, weil es schon wieder zu wolkig ist.
Angeblich haben ihn Leute am Sonntag Abend in Wien mit freiem Auge gesehen, wie er kurz zwischen den Wolken durchgeschaut hat.
Zum Glück hab ich schon so viele Fotos gesehen.
#Komet! Schaut am Abend nach Sonnenuntergang nach Westen. #Wien ca 19h, genaue Zeit: fragt #Stellarium.
Es sollte kein Berg und keine Wolke im Weg sein. Besser auf einen Berg hinauf.
Fernglas hilft.
#Astronomie
Can anyone tell me anything about the object OCI999.0? I found it on the catalogue of my Dwarf II, and it seems to be an open cluster with a nebula.
I cannot find anything about it! Not even which catalogue it is from!
Edit: Mystery solved with the aid of a co-worker .
It is actually OCL 999.0 aka Trumpler 24 . The issue was a font failure, I vs l.
#dwarfii #stellarium #astronomy
@CosmicRami ? @futzle ? @ariaflame ?
This is of course a rather fake composite of several processings of 60 images (Canon G7 X, 3s, ISO 400, 35mm equivalent FL):
1) Median of unaligned frames for the roof and tree
2) Median aligned on stars, erased around the roof and tree to show #1
3) Max aligned on stars for ISS, blended in "lighten only" mode, with other stuff blacked out
Alignment and stacking with @gmic and variously tortured in gimp
Bonus: #Stellarium planning image