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

2018; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 14; Issue: A30 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1743921319004046

1743-9221

Georg Zotti, Alexander Wolf,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Abstract 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.