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Welcome

Welcome to the Stellarium wiki, a knowledge website about Stellarium, the free planetarium for your computer.

Work In Progress

The stellarium wiki is in migration from our old mediawiki server to this new github wiki. We are slowly migrating content here, but keep in mind that most of the old content needs to be updated before migrating.

Getting started

TODO: this is already part of the User Guide, need to add proper links once we have an HTML version

Installation
Quickstart guide
User Guide
FAQ

Developers

compiling

See BUILDING.md in the code repository

coding

developers mailing list

Follow what's going on by reading our developers mailing list

Help us

Translation

We are using Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/stellarium/stellarium/dashboard/

There you can

Translate Stellarium in your language
Translate the homepage in your language

Summer of Code

ESA Summer of Code in Space 2023 ?

Specific things you can do

See the Issues list. If you feel you can solve one, please do so and send us a pull request. Most welcome are "Good First Issues" and those that we have flagged "Help needed".

Advanced topics

Stellarium in Planetariums

Dome projection with a spherical mirror: http://paulbourke.net/dome/stellarium/

telescope control

A nice external tutorial to set up ASCOM telescopes: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-setting-up-an-equatorial-mount-on-ascom-with-eqmod-stellarium-and-cartes-du-ciel.html

Stellarium on a boat (#1913)

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen/blob/master/install-scripts/8-apps/files/stellarium-augmented.sh

And config:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen/blob/master/install-scripts/8-apps/files/stellarium-config.ini

Note that Azimuth 0 in Stellarium remote control API is South

research and education

Extensions & Extras files

TODO: please remove obsolete stuff. It should be enough to say for the last version only how to install the files, and list the available files with URL where to download them

Landscapes: There is an extensive set of Landscapes available for Stellarium at http://stellarium.org/en/landscapes.html. The set is currently being transferred from the older wiki at http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Landscapes. Some landscapes may not be available yet, so please consult both sites.
Nebula images: See Stellarium User Guide, chapter 8.
Scripts: A nice collection of user-contributed scripts can be found at http://stellarium.org/scripts.html.
Solar System Objects: Please use the Solar System Editor plugin to add, update or remove orbital elements or minor planets and comets. The User Guide explains the data format if you want to write your own data.
Sky cultures: See how people across the world look at the heavens above. See Stellarium User Guide, chapter 9. Old page: http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Sky_cultures