You can view and modify this by pressing F2 to open the Configuration window and going to Tools tab. On the top bar, click Insert » Picture » From File. Then, access the directory where the screenshot was saved and select the screenshot to be inserted on the page.
Resize the screenshot to fill the page, or whatever size suits your need. Click the picture to select it. The filter icon will appear encircled in red. Click it and select Invert the half-black half-white circle-in-rectangle icon. This is it, now you have a star chart ready for print. Note that we Invert the colors so that the dark dots now represent the stars.
We did this to conserve ink. You can save the document for later printing or just print it right away. Just wanted to thank you for these comprehensive instructions. Many thanks again, Frank Aquino. The image will be saved in the location specified in the screenshot directory.
You can change this directory to another one using the folder button. If you need to print your screenshot, it is better to enable the "invert colors" option. This will make the sky white while the stars will be black. This option will save your printer ink. Under the scripts tab, you will find some scripts that were provided with Stellarium. Scripts are programs that automates execution of some user and program actions.
To add scripts to Stellarium, install them in the script directory of the main program folder or in the Stellarium user directory. Stellarium scripts additional files. Stellarium wiki scripts. Plugins are additional features that can be enabled or disabled. The plugins will be discussed in details in the Plugins page. Main Under the Main tab, you can set your preferred language, the level of object Information details and save user settings or restore program defaults.
Language Select your preferred language from the drop down list. Object Information Object information can be presented in three levels: detailaed, summary or none. Detailed information will display all information available about the object. Short information will display the type of the object and its coordinates. None will not display any information about the selected object.
This includes the options selected in the "Sky and viewing" window and the options of the "Configuration" window and any other setting you performed like the field of view. Navigation Control When you check the "Enable keyboard navigation", you can use the keyboard arrow keys and PageUp and PageDown to pan the view or to zoom it. Startup Date and Time You can let Stellarium starts with one of three Dates and Times: - The system date and time which will be obtained from your computer clock - A time you set and the system date - A time and date you set.
Other Mouse cursor timeout You can also set the time after which the mouse cursor will be hidden if no action is performed. Show flip buttons You can have the flip buttons included in the horizontal bar by checking the "Show flip buttons" box. Flip buttons included in the horizontal bar. Tools You can select the options used for planetarium projection, screenshots and extra star catalogs here.
Planetarium Options Spheric mirror distortion This option pre-warps the main view such that it may be projected onto a spherical mirror using a projector. Current release 0. A fix is under progress. Disc Viewport This option masks the main view producing the effect of a telescope eyepeice. Disc viewport with an effect of a telescope eyepiece Disc viewport with fisheye projection - see Projections Gravity labels This option will display the labels of objects aligned to the nearest horizon.
Select single constellation When you enable display of constellation art or constellation lines , you can limit Stellarium to display only the constellation that you selected a star which defines one of its lines. You can find the direction of startup view under the Main tab in the configuration. The folder button lets you select another screenshot directory Extra Star Catalogs Stellarium comes with 4 default catalogs that have around , stars up to magnitude You can download 5 more catalogs.
Catalog 5 has 1. Catalog 6 has 7. Catalog 7 has Catalog 8 has Catalog 9 has If you think about the earth as a little globe floating inside the celestial sphere, you know that at any time half of the celestial sphere is above you - the rest is behind the globe you're standing on. If you change location and move to the other side of the globe, you would see the other half. Sometimes we are asked why a star map from one location looks like another. Because we're looking at half of the celestial sphere, the scale of the map is very large - horizon to horizon, the amount of sky you can see above you is massive, much like if you were to look at half of the globe.
Often the issue is simply that the difference is too subtle at the scale of the map. For example, Washington and New York are separated by only 7 degrees of latitude: a minor shift within the degree expanse of the star map!
So how for the same date, might their star maps show the same skies? The answer in this instance, comes with time. By default, we render star maps at 10 PM in the evening, since these are the stars and constellations that people remember seeing and ask us about on the date they wish to remember. And strictly speaking, rendering at midnight would show the stars for the following day!
The time chosen is local time, so if you were to render two star maps for the same date for example in New York and San Francisco, the stars rendered in the New York map would be at 10 PM New York time, and the stars in the San Francisco maps would be for 10 PM San Francisco time, 3 hours later! During this time, the earth has rolled around underneath the stars, so that San Francisco is looking up at the same stars that were above New York earlier. You can render the stars for the same moment in time by making appropriate adjustments to the time - in this example, setting the New York time to 11 PM and the San Francisco time to 8 PM, for example, which would give you quite different maps rotated 48 degrees, their difference in longitude.
It's a great compliment that many of our customers return to buy second and third copies of the prints they have previously purchased. Sometimes, however, they note with alarm that the stars have changed between their earlier print. This is nothing to be alarmed about! We have moved our default time over the months before settling on 10 PM. Typically, the earlier print is a slightly earlier time and we have found the later time of 10 PM to be a better default because for some Northern and Southern extremes, the sunset occurs very late in the evening during the summer months.
We would like to encourage our customers to pay attention to the time if they are ordering repeat prints and to read these notes carefully to understand that this is a change in time and does not mean that the map is inaccurate. However, if your print arrives with a time you were not expecting then as with any customer concern, we will do whatever we can to to make it right and make sure you are completely satisfied with your print.
Since providing the option to select a specific time to render the stars, we've had some interesting cases where customers have expressed concern about star maps motnths apart looking very similar. In one fascinating case, a mother's two children were born two and half months apart under a virtually identical sky! In all cases that we have addressed thus far, each has been the result of the combination of the date, in the orbit on the earth around the sun, and the time, in the earth's rotation.
If you remember again our imaginary image of the earth sitting inside a huge globe of stars: We know that the earth rotates around the sun every 12 months, so in 6 months at midnight we are looking out at a half of the celestial sphere immediately opposite the site we look out at 6 months later.
We also know that the earth rotates every 24 hours, so after 12 hours we're pointing back towards the side we pointed at 6 months ago!
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