Stellarium version 0.18.0

Zotti, Georg; Wolf, Alexander L.

doi:10.1558/jsa.36102

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“…As with every tool, users should be aware of applicability limitations. Results derived with Stellarium are based on physically based models that have their own limits as described in the User Guide (Zotti and Wolf 2020b) or the respective sources.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is also possible to overlay the polygonal line derived from measurement over the photo-based panorama. How to create such panoramas by stitching photographs taken from a single point of view with the free and open-source Hugin panorama maker (Hugin 2019) is documented in the Stellarium User Guide (Zotti and Wolf 2020b). In recent years a new kind of investigation, especially for preliminary work, has been established which can best be performed before actual site visits, and is based on digital data only.…”

Section: The Landscape Horizonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulated Sky

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Hoffmann

Wolf

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JSA

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For centuries, the rich nocturnal environment of the starry sky could be modelled only by analogue tools such as paper planispheres, atlases, globes and numerical tables. The immersive sky simulator of the twentieth century, the optomechanical planetarium, provided new ways for representing and teaching about the sky, but the high construction and running costs meant that they have not become common. However, in recent decades, “desktop planetarium programs” running on personal computers have gained wide attention. Modern incarnations are immensely versatile tools, mostly targeted towards the community of amateur astronomers and for knowledge transfer in transdisciplinary research. Cultural astronomers also value the possibilities they give of simulating the skies of past times or other cultures. With this paper, we provide an extended presentation of the open-source project Stellarium, which in the last few years has been enriched with capabilities for cultural astronomy research not found in similar, commercial alternatives.

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Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

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Simulated Sky

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Wolf

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JSA

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“…Our model needed a 0.67° curving along a north-south axis and a 0.49º curving along an east-west axis to input the earth's curvature and considerably reduce the difference between the 3D model and fieldwork measurements. We incorporated the resulting model into Stellarium according to their procedure guide (Zotti & Wolf, 2020).…”

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A bit closer to the past: the three-dimensionalization of an Inca ceremony in the north Calchaquí Valley (Salta, Argentina)

Ferrari

Izaguirre

Acuto

2021

Virtual archaeol. rev.

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Like other expansive polities, the expansion of the Inca empire across the highlands and lowlands of South America is not only a history of trade and warfare, but also of mesmerizing public performances that yielded new and memorable experiences. During highly ritualized public celebratory events, the local polities gained first-hand access to the imperial liturgy, which was vital to promote and legitimate the Inca cosmology across the newly acquired lands. Especially in the last 20 years, new technologies, an ever-growing corpus of archaeological data, as well as increasing hardware capacity and software development, make it possible to emulate the scenes that people got to witness during the Inca public events, at a home computer scale and without complex and expensive equipment. Furthermore, it prompts us to test and apply new tools and academic dissemination techniques, perhaps more suitable to current technologies and means of knowledge storage and circulation. This article presents the process of building a three-dimensional (3D) model that, on the one hand, combines historical, ethnographic, and archaeological data with Geographic Information System (GIS) datasets; on the other hand, it uses detailed architectural analysis and astronomical measurements. The objective is to yield renders that accurately display the atmospheric and lighting conditions prevailing when the site was inhabited. We will offer a detailed description of all methods, techniques, equipment, and software used to create the model and the parameters for rendering the images. The authors intend to exemplify how 3D modelling goes well beyond the 3D model as a product in itself; it becomes a fundamental tool that encouraged us to test new variables and discuss new interpretations about this settlement. Results indicate that its builders designed these settlement's Inca compounds to show off the imperial capabilities and constructive proficiency, to convey exceptional, memorable experiences to its residents and visitors, and to stage explicit links between the imperial representatives and some fundamental procreative components of the Andean cosmos. In doing so, Guitián's plaza served to stage and communicate the privileged role the imperial representatives claimed to have in a broader cosmological scheme.Highlights:<ul><li>Inca public performances were finely choreographed so that objects, places, people, landscape, and skyscape features interacted according to the main principles of imperial cosmology.</li><li>Current mid-range hardware and specialized yet reasonably user-friendly software are suitable to create accurate three-dimensional (3D) models combining historical, archaeological, and astronomical data.</li><li>Creating such a detailed 3D model contributes to cultural heritage and academic dissemination and prompted us to revise and broaden our interpretations.</li></ul>

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“…In this short review we presented and discussed the possibilities of simulating transient astronomical phenomena for research and outreach in the popular open-source desktop planetarium Stellarium. Many more details are given in the User Guide which was also significantly enlarged in recent years (Zotti & Wolf 2018).…”

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“…One of the most popular desktop planetarium programs is the open-source Stellarium project started by Fabien Chéreau in 2001 (Zotti & Wolf 2018). The original purpose of the project was to visualise the current skies as realistically as possible.…”

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

Zotti

Wolf

2018

Proc. IAU

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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.

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Stellarium version 0.18.0

Cited by 5 publications

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A bit closer to the past: the three-dimensionalization of an Inca ceremony in the north Calchaquí Valley (Salta, Argentina)

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

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