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Welcome

Welcome to the Stellarium wiki, a knowledge website about Stellarium, the free planetarium for your computer. The wiki allows Stellarium users to collectively build the knowledge base about Stellarium, so if you have something to add, please edit the page.

Work In Progress

The stellarium wiki is in migration from our old mediawiki server to this new github wiki. Please help us migrate content here, but keep in mind that most of the old content needs to be updated before migrating.

Getting started

TODO: create one page for each section, obsolete sections from old wiki where suppressed

• Installation
• Quickstart guide
• User Guide
• FAQ

Extensions & Extras files

TODO: please remove obsolete stuff. It should be enough to say for the last version only how to install the files, and list the available files with URL where to download them

• Plugins
• Stars
• Variable Stars
• Landscapes
• Textures
• Nebula images
• Scripts
• Solar System Objects
• Sky cultures: See how people across the world look at the heavens above.

Help us

Summer of Code

• Summer of Code in Space 2017

Specific things you can do

• Translate Stellarium in your language
• Translate the homepage in your language
• Tips for editing the wiki

Advanced topics

Stellarium in Planetariums

• Dome projection with a spheric mirror

Telescope control

• Control your telescope
• Telescope control compatibility

research and education

• Research
• Education Resources

Developers

compiling

• Getting Stellarium's source code
• Compilation on Linux
• Windows Build Instructions
• Compilation on Mac OS X

coding

• Coding standard (off-wiki)
• Building and Developing Plugins
• Pull requests guideline
• Release Schedule

developers mailing list

Follow what's going on by reading our public development mailing list. You can send e-mail to this list, but it will be moderated before it appears.