The instructions have not been evaluated with versions outside this range. “Distant Nature: Astronomy Exercises” is designed for use with Stellarium 0.10.x through 0.12.x. A copy of the GPL is available from and is also included with the download of the software as described in the “Downloading” section. For comments about Stellarium itself, visit the Stellarium forums.” – Copied from stellarium_user_guide-0.10.2.1.pdf - GUI buttons from screen shots created by Johan Meuris (Jomejome) (jomejome at ) License: released under the Free Art License ( ) Stellarium is offered under the Gnu Public License Agreement (GPL) from free software. If you have questions and/or comments about this guide, please email the author. Check for updates to Stellarium at the Stellarium website. Stellarium is under fairly rapid development, and by the time you read this guide, a newer version may have been released with even more features that those documented here.

Some amateur astronomy groups use it to create sky maps for describing regions of the sky in articles for newsletters and magazines. Because of the high quality of the graphics that Stellarium produces, it is used in some real planetarium projector products. Stellarium may be used as an educational tool for teaching about the night sky, as an observational aid for amateur astronomers wishing to plan a night’s observing, or simply as a curiosity (it’s fun!). It can also draw the constellations and simulate astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers, and solar or lunar eclipses. It calculates the positions of the Sun and Moon, planets and stars, and draws how the sky would look to an observer depending on their location and the time. “Stellarium is a software project that allows people to use their home computer as a virtual planetarium.