Friday, November 28, 2014

More troubleshooting of Stellarium: old vs new versions

I've just been installing, testing, and removing the most recent three versions of Stellarium for Windows 32-bit, and those are the 13.1, 13.0 and 12.4 versions.
Both of the 13.1 and 13.0 versions show that error pop-up asking for a disk to be inserted in Drive F ("F" is a USB port!) - but version 12.4 installs and runs perfectly with no error messages. So I would have to conclude that this problem is a glitch in Stellarium's latest versions, rather than a problem with the new Windows Technical Preview, Build 9879.  Here's a few screenshots from version 12.4 of Stellarium this morning....

Earth as seen from Venus
Latest view from Vancouver...
The same view but with the Atmosphere removed...
An artificial satellite in orbit.
Other satellites' tracks...
There are a lot of extras and plug-ins you can add to the basic program, and it is both fun and educational. You can be your own astronaut with this, and you don't have to use any chemical supplements to get it going or keep you up there. You can find it here.

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