Latest version Stellarium 0.11.4 released on 9 Sept 2012.
Download it and install it --> http://www.stellarium.org/
The new feature observability analysis is very useful.
How to use it:
Step 1 --- Run Stellarium. Move mouse to bottom left-hand margin to reveal vertical menu.
Step 2 --- Click on "Configuration --> Plugins --> Observability analysis".
Step 3 --- Check the box "Load at startup".
Step 4 --- Restart Stellarium.
Step 5 --- Move mouse to bottom screen area of Stellarium to reveal the horizontal menu.
Step 6 --- Click on the icon which looks like a telescope on a tripod
Step 7 --- Now you can click on any object and find out its rising and setting time and a live countdown timing too.
Step 7 --- Click on the telescope-on-tripod icon again to disable this feature on the screen.
Have fun exploring this and other new features/plugins!
Stellarium 0.11.4 released
Stellarium 0.11.4 released
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email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.