Stellarium Free Download Windows 7
Keva Magera
Im using a windows 8.1 64bit laptop and installed the latest 64bit version of stellarium. I cannot for the life of me work out how to run it windowed. I've right clicked the stellarium icon to make sure it says open windowed. I've also edited the config.ini file to make sure it says full screen: 'false' under the video section
I'll have a go tonight. The reason its a pest is that my friend is using stellarium scope for mount control and at some point needs to minimise/window Stellarium to fire up PHD and get guiding set up once target is acquired.
Everyone I know who has used this program, and I know many, have complained and agonized over how to minimize, maximize or close the window as the program does not open in a standard way. There are no classic icons for performing these tasks , in the upper right hand corner of the window. I finally found that the way to trigger their appearance is to click on the that 'stretch box' icon , in the bottom toolbar. I heard a Function key will do it too. Why not have the program launch with this feature enabled ? Every other windows-based program does and we all want to be able to toggle between windows and programs. Thanks.
The problem is this: How many windows programs do you know that when they open, are missing the upper right sizing icons ? I know of only 1. Stellarium. I am in a class right now of astronomy students and no one could figure out how to toggle into other windows or programs, without shutting down the program, until we found it after quite a long search and experimentation. True we could search and find it in the users guide but shouldn't software be standardized ? We wouldn't have an Industrial or Information Revolution without standards. If we had to read and remember a user guide for every piece of software we used in life, we'd have time for nothing else. Cheers.
It's incredible! It's really amazing because for great number of people Stellarium's GUI was very clean and simple. OK, you write about standartization of software and I quote "I am in a class right now of astronomy students and no one could figure out how to toggle into other windows or programs, without shutting down the program, until we found it after quite a long search and experimentation". You and all students don't know about standartized Alt+Tab for switching between windows in Windows? My main operating system is Linux and this operating system doesn't use standartized look and behaviour for windows which used in Windows.
I'm a machinist and hobby astronomer, not a computer person :-)
so I'm looking for something that will be ready to go.
In my expectations I'm taking the telescope out of the car, aim it to Polaris or any other bright star. tell to whatever software (don't have to be stellarium, of on a laptop it can be also something on the phone) that the telescope is point to "Polaris", and from that point all I want is just to click in the software on whatever object and i want the telescope to track it.
In my expectations I'm taking the telescope out of the car, aim it to Polaris or any other bright star. tell to whatever software (don't have to be stellarium, of on a laptop it can be also something on the phone) that the telescope is point to "Polaris", and from that point all I want is just to click in the software on whatever object and i want the telescope to track it.
However I am trying to follow a tutorial which allows your 2 axis telescope rig to connect to the windows app Stellarium and track stars. Since this tutorial uses encoders rather than stepper drivers that use DRV8825, I'm quite lost where I could potentially re-place the encoders with DRV8825 driver boards.
VirGO-1.4.5 (Jan 15th 2010) is distributed as a binary compiled for linux-i386 and windows and MacOSX. The package contains a binary version of Stellarium, the VirGO plug-in for ESO archive access and some extra star catalogs and landscapes.
Important: When started, the Stellarium software takes up the entire screen, covering up any other windows you may have open (including this website). On a desktop or laptop computer, you can use the F11 key to switch between full-screen and a windowed view of Stellarium. Alternatively, or if you are working on a mobile device, you may want to make separate notes or print out the instructions for each activity so that you can continue to work while the screen is filled with the Stellarium display.
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