How to install stellarium

This tutorial is for the beginner users. Follow the below procedure to install it. This method is the easiest way to install any software for Ubuntu. But it makes a bit delay to hit the latest packages on software center. Search the package name and hit the install button. Snap is a universal software package for installing software across the distros. Stellarium provides official repositories for the snap package. You can search it as a snap package on Snap store or Ubuntu software center.

Windows 64 bit. User Guide 0. Try the Web Version. The great nebula in Orion. Press N to bring up the nebula labels. The dance of the planets above ESO headquarters, near Munich. Choose a language for the installation and click OK. The Stellarium setup wizard will appear. Click next. Read through the License agreement and if you agree to the terms then click I Accept the Agreement.

Then click Next. Choose a folder for the Stellarium files to be installed into the click Next. Swapping between various eyepiece and scope pairings — or between different combinations of camera and telescope or indeed camera lens — while using the program is easy: simply click the double arrows next to each piece of equipment listed in the box under the toolbar, which appears when either the eyepiece field of view or camera field of view tools are in use.

It also shows where numerous asteroids and comets are located at any given moment. For example, if the ISS is going to make a pass over the location that Stellarium is simulating the sky for, the program will show it as a bright point of light moving against the stars, just as you would see it in real life.

For more on this, read our guides on how to see the International Space Station and how to take a photo of the International Space Station.

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