Stellarium software

"Holly, in France" wrote in
:

Hi all, someone has kindly just sent me this link for some software I
haven't seen or heard of befo

http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/index.html

It's too big a download for me, and I doubt my ageing computer would run
it anyway, but would be interested to know if others have tried it and
what they think of it. Any thoughts anyone?


Nobody has mentioned

Cartes du Ciel; http://astrosurf.com/astropc/cartes/index.html or
Skychart; http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/,

a (free) originally Francophone prog if that interests you in your area.

It's a bit quirky in use, but suits me, I've been using it since Skymap
went payware.

The basic package, which is well over what I need, is a 4Mb download, and
you can add catalogues if required.

I used Stellarium some time ago, and it was very nice indeed, but not IMO
teckernickel enough for eclipses, occultations etc, but at a 16Mb package,
I guess that must have changed!

mike

Originally Posted by Andy G

It's excellent I've been using if for a while.

Cheers Andy
--
Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS.

Andy - sorry to ask a stupid question but I downloaded the file how do I open *.exe.doc ?

Nytecam

In article ,
says...

Andy G Wrote:
It's excellent I've been using if for a while.

Cheers Andy
--
Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS.


Andy - sorry to ask a stupid question but I downloaded the file how do
I open *.exe.doc ?

Check it with a virus scan, it's common to see this extension on virii.
--
Craig Oldfield

Originally Posted by Craig Oldfield

Andy - sorry to ask a stupid question but I downloaded the file how do
I open *.exe.doc ?[/color]

Check it with a virus scan, it's common to see this extension on virii.
--
Craig Oldfield

Thanks - my virus checker found nothing on download and a 2nd check now likewise but as precaution file deleted. Shame - it looked an interesting program;-(

Nytecam

Holly, in France wrote:

Hi all, someone has kindly just sent me this link for some software I
haven't seen or heard of befo

http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/index.html

It's too big a download for me, and I doubt my ageing computer would run
it anyway, but would be interested to know if others have tried it and
what they think of it. Any thoughts anyone?


--
Holly, in France
Gite to let in Dordogne, now with pool.
http://la-plaine.chez-alice.fr

Stellarium is really nice, I run it:
Under X11 on MacoSX (installed through fink)
As an Application on MacOSX
Under XWindows in Fedora Core4 (linux)
....and also in WindowsXP on a few machines which have OpenGL graphic cards.

On all of these platforms it works well, and gives a very pleasing
rendition of what I could see if it werent for the bloomin clouds.

You will probably want a machine which is no more than 4 years old to
get the best performance.

Clouds do have their purposes!

Torc