How To Setup And Use Stellarium On Windows (Stellarium 101)

What Will I Learn?

Hello,Stellarium is a open-source project where you can discover the universe.If you are a astonomy student this program is necessary to learn.

• You will learn how to install and setup in on your computer
• You will learn how to use Stellarium to discover the universe.

Requirements

• Stellarium
• Windows

Difficulty

• Basic

Tutorial Contents

Hello,today i am going to show you how to install stellarium on your windows computer and run.

First step you need to go to this link After going in this website there is a options to download on the top of website.Since you are a windows user you will choose 32 or 64 bit depends on your computer.

After downloading the Stellarium .exe file we are going to set it up on our computer.Choose your prefered language.

After choosing where i want to setup the program it's starting to download.

After the setup the program starts.The first look is like this.Program started at where i live.

Now if you want to see atmosphere Click "A" and here is your view.

Now you can choose wherever you want to go from here.All you have to do is zoom in.For example i am going to zoom in to "Jupiter" The informations on left corner shows us the coordinates of the planet.For example Jupiter is 562.34 light year from the Earth.

If you want to watch a meteor shower click [ctrl+alt+m] or click down from the menu and select the date.

Now in the right top corner there is a options menu which you can select your prefered telescope.Also you can choose if you want horizontal or veritical flip.If you want to add your own telescope.Click down "add" on the left corner.

In the next tutorial i will show you how to calculate distance between Ephemerises.

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