Viewing Stellarium

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

>> To display any calculated chart in Stellarium

1.Select the required chart from the list of "Calculated Charts" on the Main Screen.

2.Select the Stellarium option from the View menu.

If Stellarium is already installed on your computer, then this will start it up, with location and time set according to the current chart in Solar Fire.

If Stellarium is not already installed on your computer, then you will be presented with a link to the Stellarium site, from where you may download and install it.

If, for any reason, Stellarium is already installed on your computer, but Solar Fire cannot find it, then you will be prompted to navigate to the folder into which the Stellarium program was installed. Once you have done this, Solar Fire will remember its location in future.

Note: Due to limitations of Stellarium, when a Solar Fire chart is displayed, Stellarium shows the chart time according to your local timezone - not according to the timezone of the chart. However, it is still the correct instant in time, so the celestial phenomena are still all correct for that chart.

Note: Stellarium is a third party product, and Esoteric Technologies has no control over it, or how it may change in future. This link is offered "as-is", and we cannot take any credit for its features, or any responsibility for its flaws. However, we will do our best to maintain compatibility with it in future.