Solar System Event Screen Saver
For Stellarium 0.14.0

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 248 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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There was a bug in Stellarium regarding longitudes on the moons around the planets. This was fixed in Stellarium 0.14.0. So if you are using a prior version of Stellarium, many of the events won't work.

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I can be emailed at qam1@aol.com