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Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer
- breck 7y agoThis is really cool! Thanks! I like the web version (https://stellarium-web.org/ https://stellarium-web.org/) When I clicked "Allow to use my location" I was really hoping that the scenery would change to Google Streetview or something for my exact location. That would make it easier to orient myself. I'm sure that's on the roadmap in the future as the streetview stuff continues to improve and be easier to remix.
- Moru 7y agoJust make a photo for your own place and add it as background for Stellarium, no need to wait :-)
- breck 7y agoNow this is a good idea. Is there a feature where you can use your webcam or phone's cam to scan in your current surroundings, and then potential use a model to strip out the sky and replace it with Stellarium?
- cheez 7y agoIs there anything like (formerly) Google Skymap that works? In the "good old days", Skymap was my goto to answer the question "what is that point of light in the sky?" The most recent versions of Skymap don't seem to work for me _at all_. I have to use the manual orientation.
- simcop2387 7y agoKstars might fit your needs, https://edu.kde.org/kstars/ https://edu.kde.org/kstars/
- cheez 7y agoNice! But Google Skymap is for mobile and its key benefit was that I could literally point at the point of light I was looking at with the phone and get a good guess as to what it was. KStars looks like a desktop app. Also... Making me yearn to get back into backyard astronomy.
- AnonymousPlanet 7y agoI got it from F-Droid and it works just like always for me. Maybe your phone lacks a necessary sensor. When I was shopping for a phone lately I noticed that there are still fairly expensive phones lacking a compass or a gyroscope, sometimes depending on the region they are sold.
- cheez 7y agoI don't think that's the case for me but I'm not sure how I'd check. What phone are you using with fdroid?
- pmontra 7y agoSkyEye https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lavadip.skeye https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lavadip.sk...
- cheez 7y agoHey this looks great!
- jcurbo 7y agoI can't speak for Android but on iOS there are several apps that can do this. Pocket Universe and SkySafari are two I use frequently.
- btgeekboy 7y agoOn iOS, I use SkyView. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyview/id404990064 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyview/id404990064
- kissickas 7y agoSame on Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyviewfree https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyvie... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyview https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyvie...
- cheez 7y agoExcellent suggestion!
- LarryMade2 7y agoIf you like that check out Celestia too - https://celestia.space/ https://celestia.space/
- wallacoloo 7y agoI haven't figured out the Wayland solution yet, but on X11 you can use a tool called Devil's Pie to make Stellarium act as your desktop background, which is way more fun than any other desktop I've had: http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/ http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/
- rosstex 7y agoThis sounds awesome! Any tips for doing this on a Mac? I haven't found a working version of the tool.
- dkarp 7y agoamazing - how demanding is Stellarium to run?
- wallacoloo 7y agoDemanding enough that I’d kill it before doing any gaming to get a small boost in FPS, but otherwise, when you aren’t interacting with it I think cpu usage was something like 3% on my i5 processor. When you’re moving around the view and such though, it does use a significant amount of cpu.
- app4soft 7y ago> https://github.com/gnome/devilspie https://github.com/gnome/devilspie - Page not found ;-( Where get it now?
- adonnjohn 7y agoStellarium is the reason I passed my astronomy classes in college. Mad props.
- _august 7y agoHow do people find the time to create free software of this caliber?
- smacktoward 7y agoBy working on it for nearly 20 years.
- Moru 7y agoIf you don't work at a place that expects you to work 80 hours per week it's certainly easier to find time. Love Stellarium, now you can even predict ISS passings accurately to see it IRL.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoA labor of love.
- EnderWT 7y agoThey creators did an interview when Stellarium was featured as the project of the month on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-2006-05/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-2006-05/
- emmelaich 7y agoI'm throwing in a recommendation for https://heavens-above.com https://heavens-above.com which is awesome and free and has an Android app .. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heavens_above.viewer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heavens_ab...
- anonytrary 7y agoStellarium is such a beautiful product. I used it back in college and shared it with the astrophysics majors, and they all loved it, too. Stellarium helped me play around with a telescope I had. There is so much joy in playing with a digital, interactive patch of the sky, then being able to look up through a lens and see the real thing a minute later. As for Stellarium, I fell in love with the countryside aesthetic and how they really went for a VR-type feeling before VR ever became a buzzthing. My favorite features are zooming in and speeding up the clock. Stellarium put a surprising amount of detail into their product, I suggest pushing all of those features to their limits. You will be pleasantly surprised with how far they go.
- madaxe_again 7y agoIt’s really handy for astrophotographers, too - I use Astroplanner to chuck together a list of potential targets for a given night or set of nights, then check them out in stellarium, where I’ve imported my actual horizon from my site, and my scope and camera combinations for framing - means I can ensure I’m not wasting time trying to image something obscured by trees or terrain - I’m in a Y shaped valley with a horizon that goes from 10 to 50 degrees which makes this impossible to sensibly automate. The it’s just on to an SGP sequence, and let it run.
- brnt 7y agoHehe, when I was doing my astrophysics major I always felt I was cheating a bit, using Stellarium to help me do my observations.
- kragen 7y agoreally went for a VR-type feeling before VR ever became a buzzthing As I remember it, the peak of the VR hype was 1993—SIGGRAPH ’93 was full of the stuff, Snow Crash came out in 1992, and of course Neuromancer had come out in 1984 and True Names came out 1981. Google N-Grams seems to back up this perception: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Virtual+reality%2Cid+software%2Cjaron+lanier&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CVirtual%20reality%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bvirtual%20reality%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BVirtual%20Reality%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BVirtual%20reality%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BVIRTUAL%20REALITY%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cid%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bid%20Software%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BId%20Software%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BID%20Software%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bid%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BID%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BId%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJaron%20Lanier%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Virtual+realit... Stellarium came out in 2001, 8 years later. I agree that it is beautiful and wonderful.
- dessant 7y agoStellarium has helped us anticipate the position of astronomical events. It's extremely useful, even for casual stargazers.
- jlengrand 7y agoThis link pops up every other month on HN, and every time it makes me remember all those nights spent trying to find in the sky the stars I had seen on the software and I smile :). So thanks I guess!
- signal11 7y agoAlso https://stellarium-web.org/ https://stellarium-web.org/, a WASM version of Stellarium (also open source[1]) was previously discussed on HN a year ago[2]. [1] https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-web https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-web [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113
- app4soft 7y agoIf you want Stellarium for Android I highly recommends you install «Stellarium for Android»[0] (extended FLOSS fork of «Stellarium Mobile»[1]). [0] https://github.com/chengxinlun/Stellarium-android https://github.com/chengxinlun/Stellarium-android [1] https://www.stellarium-labs.com/stellarium-mobile https://www.stellarium-labs.com/stellarium-mobile
- nessunodoro 7y agoI'm on mobile right now and can't verify the contents of the tarball but you might try http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ i recommend devilspie2 highly, for years it was the only way i found to remove window decorations from ubuntu unity, remove UI drop shadows from notification windows, and a few other wm- agnostic quality of life tweaks
- codeplea 7y agoDoes anyone know if this, or anything like it, is available in VR?
- lejalv 7y agoThe Stellarium authors are combing research papers and continuously improving the physical realism of lighting. It's a true work of craftsmanship.
- dang 7y agoThread from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513222 and a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113 We waived the usual dupe criteria (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) since people like this project so much, and it hasn't had so much attention relative to its (and HN's) history.
- rockcamus 7y agoI really want to explore the scripting feature
- linuxlover08 7y agoI want to more about it
- linuxlover08 7y agohttps://www.cyberpratibha.com/apt-get-command-in-linux/ https://www.cyberpratibha.com/apt-get-command-in-linux/