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Changes in the Unchangeable: Simulation of Transient Astronomical Phenomena with Stellarium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2020

Georg Zotti  and
Alexander Wolf
Georg Zotti
Affiliation:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, Hohe Warte 38, A-1190 Vienna, Austria email: Georg.Zotti@univie.ac.at
Alexander Wolf
Affiliation:
Altai State Pedagogical University, Barnaul, Russia email: aw@altspu.ru
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Abstract

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The open-source desktop planetarium Stellarium has become very popular in astronomical education and outreach. Our recent changes aim for its applicability in historical and archaeoastronomical simulation contexts. Apart from visualizing the seemingly perpetual regular motions of the celestial bodies, it can be used to visualize and demonstrate historical solar and lunar eclipses, historical and present comets, meteors, and also novae and supernovae.

Keywords

Simulationphenomenologydesktop planetariumoutreach
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium A30: Astronomy in Focus XXX , August 2018 , pp. 184 - 186
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020

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