Stellarium

[JS]

I down loaded this but even though it looks like a great program--I was unable to get it do change to my Lat and Long--it just had strange things that came up on the screen--I am running Vista Home Premium.

Thanks for any help

[andreas.jordan]

Hi JS,

I have Stallarium as well but while I don't know it thoroughly, to change your lat and long to suit your location, hit F6 or move mouse to bottom left part of screen where a pop-up toolbar appear...select Location Window.

Now in the window that comes up, you'll need to find out where you are in the world with Deg, min and secs. I believe I did it with Google Earth but there is a location finder in the UserCp under "Edit Details".

[JS]

Thank you Andreas, I have got all the lat and long--I did get the tool bars but when I hit on them the screen froze and wouldn't do anything, I was wondering if my computer is lacking something--however I did not hit F6. It also neve seems to have any instructions (or I was unable to get them)

[supernova1965]

Hi I don't think it is lacking something I think it probably has something on it namely Vista that is your problem:D

[richardda1st]

Check similar thread Under "General chat", also titled Stellarium, posted by "that guy":)
Hope it helps.

[JS]

Thanks will give it another go tomorrow

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi

There are Stellarium threads running under a number sections in this forum. Many of the queries raised are already answered in another section. As a member of the Stellarium team I can answer most queries but I need to find and read them first.

Barry

[JS]

It seems there might be a problem with using it on Vista?

[supernova1965]

Yes it runs dismally on vista I found everything I had ran bad on vista but runs great on WIN 7

[supernova1965]

THANKS FOR PROVIDING A GREAT RESOURCE FOR US:thumbsup:

[JS]

Thanks Warren--seems so. How does it run on XP ?

[Barrykgerdes]

Vista had a lot of OpenGl driver problems but I think they
have been fixed now. Stellarium runs great on Vista Home for me on an Acer laptop after I located suitable drivers.

Barry

[supernova1965]

I never had any problems on XP

[JS]

Thanks Barry I may try it on the XP laptop then

[JethroB76]

Stellarium runs fine on Vista for me..

[Roobi]

stellariums fine on vista for me too.

[SteveB]

Just downloaed the program, looks pretty cool. Thanks Andreas for the tip on location, all done.

[GAS747]

i d/loaded it and used it last nite. first time with a telescope and was able to find planets/objects easy with this tool

one thing, iv got windows 7 it runs really slow. on a windows XP machine its awesome!

[Barrykgerdes]

If it is fast on XP and slow on Windows 7 the problem is lack of an OpenGL driver. Check to see if you can get a later video driver.

Barry

[Barrykgerdes]

If you have just installed stellarium 0.10.2 try the patch on www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/4747.zip (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/4747.zip)

This contains components from version 0.10.3 that should make it work even better.

A new version is not very far away now.

Barry

[supernova1965]

I am using it on Windows 7 and it runs super fast you need better Graphics drivers I think.:thumbsup:

[richardda1st]

Hi Barry, are you able to tell me the minimum system requirments for the new version (0.10.3). At the moment I am running 10.2 okay on a P111 500Mz 256M of ram and a 32M graphics (it's my own personal dinosaur). :P
Will I need to upgrade?:sadeyes:
Thanks
Richard

[Barrykgerdes]

I am not sure
I had an earlier build of 0.10.3 that ran at about 5 fps on a similar machine but I ditched it last week so I can't test it. I think that you will need a 1000Mhz machine with 500MB of memory for a satisfactory run but it may work on less.
It runs great on my old HP 3Ghz pentium 4 750MB memory (I bought for $10) and an intel 82865 video card.
Barry

[GAS747]

drivers fixed the issue :)

Thx guys!!!

[Barrykgerdes]

A new version of stellarium could be released almost immediately. Watch www.stellarium.org (http://www.stellarium.org) This new version has introduced many new features.

Barry

[Chillie]

Thanks for the heads up on the new release Barry.:)

[JS]

Will try the new one thanks

[Barrykgerdes]

It's out today. Ver 0.10.3

Barry

[spacezebra]

I dont think that Stellarium likes my laptop - or vista, after a few minutes its starts to do disco lights!

Cheers Petra d.

[Barrykgerdes]

Sounds like a video driver problem.
What sort of computer and video is it.

Barry

[richardda1st]

Installed 10.3 last night. Some problems for me.

Start up image mirrored top to bottom, and some object names also mirrored.

Cardinal points out of position, way out.

I installed the new version to Stellerium10.3 and kept 10.2, I will uninstall both versions and try again.

[mswhin63]

Must need OPENGL otherwise not for you.

[hulloleeds]

Just a heads up. Stellarium is a 3d application and will run your average machine fairly hard as a result (as it just renders as many frames per second as it can). This means that your laptop battery will probably go pretty quickly.

To further reinforce this, I had a cpu fan go on one of my computers and whilst I could get away with medial use (very big heatsink), if I loaded stellarium, the machine crashed, due to heat :)

[spacezebra]

Many thanks - I loaded Windows7 and now it is working like a dream.

Many thanks

Cheers Petra d.

[Barrykgerdes]

To conserve power you can redce the max frame rate in the config.ini file. 3-5 fps is fast enough for most use.

Barry

[Barrykgerdes]

I haven't tried Windows 7 yet but it goes better in Vista than XP

Barry

[supernova1965]

It goes even better in Windows 7 than Vista