Appendix K
Acknowledgements
Primary author
Sky guide; exercise ideas
Celestial sphere diagrams; numerous corrections
Mac platform specifics
Windows platform specifics; Large
parts of Appendix G; Customisation of
.fab files; Making a custom landscape
Matthew Gates <[email protected]>
Paul Robinson
Andras Mohari
Rudy Gobits, Dirk Schwarzhans
Barry Gerdes
(Appendix E.
Japanese translation; many corrections Sigma
Colour/magnitude diagram The diagram is a modification of a diagram by Richard Powell who kindly granted permission for it to be distributed under the
Many spelling corrections
The rest of the Stellarium developer team
FDL
John Twin
You know who you are... :-)
Additional material has been incorporated into the guide from sources that are published under the GNU FDL, including material from Wikipedia and the Astronomy book at Wikibooks.
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Index
Algol variables, 71
Altitude, 49
altitude, 32, 63
altitude angle, 63
Andromeda, 79
angles, 66
annual parallax, 68
apparent magnitude, 50, 73
arc-minutes, 66
arc-second, 48, 65
arc-seconds, 66 asterism, 72
asteroid, 35
asteroids, 78
astro-photography, 79
astrometry, 71, 81
astronomical unit, 65
atmosphere, 44
atmospheric effects, 62
fog, 11
AU, 65
auto zoom, 50
auto-zoom, 10
axis of rotation, 67
azimuth, 63
angle, 63 azimuth angle, 63
azimuthal equidistant projection, 20
azimuthal grid, 42, 44, 50
Barnard’s Star, 70
Bayer, Johan, 73
binaries, 71
binoculars, 84, 87
boundary lines, 50
brightness, 41, 67
brown dwarfs, 74
cardinal points, 43, 45, 50, 62
catalogue, 52
celestial equator, 63, 63 celestial pole, 62, 63
celestial sphere, 52, 62, 63, 66, 67, 71
Cepheid variable, 76
Ceres, 77
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chart mode, 45
clock, 9, 62
cluster, 33
colour, 42
comet, 35, 78, 81
Comet Halley, 78
common name, 84
common names, 72
config.ini, 25
configuration file, 15, 24, 25, 51
constellation, 11, 84
Andromeda, 87
Aquarius, 81
Canis Major, 73
Cassiopeia, 87
diagram, 72
Orion, 73
Ursa Major, 72
constellation art, 11, 45, 50
constellation boundaries, 42, 44 constellation line, 44
constellation lines, 42, 50
constellation names, 42, 44
constellations, 24, 41, 72
coordinate system, 63
crossbow, 82
customising
landscapes, 27
cylinder projection, 20 cylindrical equidistant projection, 20
date, 15
date display format, 46
Dec, 63
declination, 63, 68
Digitalis planetariums, 46
dome projection, 45
dome projections, 43
dwarf planet, 35, 77
dwarf stars, 74
Earth, 48, 66, 70, 77
orbit, 67
rotation, 65
rotation of, 62
INDEX
Earth-Moon barycenter, 48
eccentric, 78
eclipse, 5, 80
eclipsing binaries, 71 ecliptic, 71
ecliptic line, 42, 45, 50
elliptical galaxies, 79
equator, 62, 63 celestial, 63, 63
equator line, 45, 50
equatorial, 44
equatorial grid, 42, 45, 50, 63
equatorial line, 42
Eris, 77
ESA, 81
European Space Agency, 81
EXT, 40
extended object, 79
extended objects, 33
extrinsic, 76
faces, 52
field of view, 20, 21, 42, 44, 62, 63, 87
file
configuration, 25
configuration (misc), 36
landscape.ini, 29, 30
fireballs, 80
first point of aries, 65
fish-eye, 27, 29
Flamsteed, John, 73
flip buttons, 16
fog, 44
font size, 41
FOV, 10
frames per second, 42
full-screen, 40
galaxy, 33
Galilean satellites, 48
geodesic, 52
giants, 74
Greenwich, 65
grid, 63 equatorial, 63
Halley, Edmund, 78
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 74
Hipparchus, 67, 81
Hipparcos, 65, 73, 81 catalogue, 81 experiment, 81
horizon, 44, 62, 63
icosahedron, 52
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INDEX
image files, 34
image flipping, 42
installation directory, 23, 24, 35, 52
interstellar clouds, 79
intrinsic, 76
irregular galaxies, 79
Jovian planets, 78
JPEG, 34
Julian Day, 43
Jupiter, 10, 48, 78
landscape, 24, 30, 44, 50
landscape ID, 24, 29
landscapes, 27
langauge, 41
language, 49
Latitude, 49
latitude, 46, 63, 84, 87
lenticular galaxies, 79
light pollution, 27, 45, 50
light travel time, 45
light year, 65
locale, 41
location, 15, 25, 62, 63
Longitude, 49
longitude, 46, 63, 65
Luminosity, 67
luminosity, 74, 76
luminosity class, 74
M31, 87
magellanic cloud, 81
magnitude, 50, 56, 57, 67
absolute, 67, 71
apparent, 67, 71, 73
main sequence, 74
map, 63
Mars, 48, 77
Mercury, 48, 77
meridian line, 42, 45, 50
Messier, 81
Messier, Charles, 81
Meteor, 80 meteor craters, 80
meteor shower, 5
Meteorites, 80
Meteoroids, 80
Milky Way, 45, 50, 78
milli arc-second, 66
Mimas, 13
minor planets, 78
minutes of arc, 66
Moon, 11, 48, 67, 76
INDEX
moon, 35
moon scale factor, 45 moon size, 45
mouse cursor, 42
mouse zoom, 44
multiple star systems, 71
nadir, 29, 63
naked eye, 84
navigation, 63
nebula, 43, 79
nebula labels, 45 nebula textures, 45
nebulae, 50, 79, 81
Neptune, 48
night mode, 45 object trails, 45
obliquity of the ecliptic, 67
observer, 29, 52
observer location, 51
OpenGL, 6
optical doubles, 72 optical multiples, 72
orbit, 67, 76
orbital plane, 67
orbits, 43
panorama, 27, 29
parallax, 56, 65, 68, 81
parsec, 65, 67, 70
perspective projection, 21
phases, 76
planet, 35, 43, 48, 67, 77
Earth, 77
hints, 11
Jupiter, 10, 77
Mars, 77
Mercury, 77
Neptune, 77
Pluto, 77
Saturn, 77
Uranus, 77
Venus, 77
planet hints, 45 planet labels, 45 planet orbits, 45
planet trails, 43, 50
planetarium, 5
planetary bodies, 35
planetary nebulae, 33, 79
planetoids, 78
PNG, 29, 34
Pogson, Norman, 67
96 pole
celestial, 62, 63, 68
Earth, 62, 63
pole star, 68 precession, 65, 68
Precision, 48
preset sky time, 43
projection mode, 20, 40
fisheye, 20
perspective, 21 stereographic, 21
proper motion, 56, 57, 70, 81
proper name, 84
quit, 51
RA, 63
RA/Dec, 73
removable media, 46
right ascension, 63, 68, 73
Russell, Henry Norris, 74
satellite, 76
Saturn, 13, 48, 78
screenshot save directory, 23
script, 42 script bar, 42
script save directory, 23
scripts, 27, 51
seconds of arc, 66
shooting stars, 80
side tool bar, 11
sidereal, 42
sidereal day, 49, 65 sky culture, 41, 49
sky cultures, 24
sky time, 49
Sol, 71
solar day, 65 solar system, 33, 65
Solar System body, 49
solar system body, 46
spectra, 73
spectral type, 74
speed of light, 45, 65
spheric mirror, 40
spherical, 27
spiral galaxies, 79
star, 49
dog star, the, 73
Sirius, 72
star catalogue, 52
star cluster, 33
star clusters, 81
INDEX
INDEX
star data records, 52
star labels, 45
Stars, 78
stars, 15, 33, 41, 62, 63, 68, 71
Betelgeuse, 73
Polaris, 68
Proxima Centuri, 70, 71
Sadalmelik, 81
Sirius, 73
status bar, 8, 9
stellar parallax, 68
stereographic projection, 21
sub-system, 10
Sun, 62, 65, 67, 70, 71, 77
super-giants, 74
supernova remnant, 79
system clock, 9
telescope control, 38, 46 telescope indicators, 46
telescope location indicator., 43 telescope location label, 43
terrestrial planets, 77
texture files, 34
time, 9, 15, 63
time display format, 46
time rate, 62
time zone, 46, 49
tool-bar
main, 11, 15, 63
time, 9
TUI menu, 43
twinkling, 41, 50
Tycho
catalogue, 81
units, 65
Uranus, 48, 78
User Directory, 52
user directory, 23–25, 35
user interface, 41
variable stars, 76
Algol, 71
vector, 44, 52
Venus, 48, 77
visual effects, 11
VSOP87, 48
white dwarfs, 74
window
configuration, 15, 16
landscape, 61
landscapes tab, 29–31
language tab, 35
location tab, 38, 62, 63
find, 13
help, 14
location, 15
search, 13
zenith, 29, 45, 62, 63
zones, 52
zoom, 10, 43
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