Solar System Event Screen Saver
For Stellarium 0.12.4

File: Solar system screensaver.ssc

Instructions:

1) Download zip file
2) Extract the files in script folder
3) Run Stellarium
4) Run scripts
5) Run file
6) Sit back and watch

General Notes:

Not a real screen saver of course. You have to manually run it and stop it the same way as any other script.

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Currently there are 232 events, I hope to continue to add more and periodically release updates

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I set the delay between events at 8 seconds. If it's too long or short for you, open the file in notepad and change the speed

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The order in which the events are displayed is random and should be different every time you run the script.

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Some links to sites that deserve credit for helping me predict, find & choose events

http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html

http://www.pierpaoloricci.it/sitemap_eng.htm

http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/astro1.html

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My dates I calculated do seem to match other dates from a wide variety of sources, but I make no guarantee on accuracy.

I'm sure accuracy decreases the further back or forward in time any given script goes. Especially for Pluto.

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Version 232 uses a command in the script that doesn't work in previous versions prior to 0.12.2. This command turns off the Delta T correction that Stellarium started to use from version 0.12.0 onward.

 If you are using Stellarium 0.11.4 or earlier and want to use version 232 of this script

To remove the command

Open Script file in Notepad or equivalent

And remove this line

core.setDeltaTAlgorithm("WithoutCorrection");

Save file

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I can be emailed at qam1@aol.com