Solar System Event Screen Saver
For Stellarium 0.22.2 and later

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 320 events, I 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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The way Stellarium names Asteroids has changed in Stellarium 0.16.1., Version 300 of this script is made with the new names and won't work right with previous versions of Stellarium.  

Ceres, other asteroids, the dwarf planets beyond Pluto are more accurate / changed in 0.14.3. if you are using a previous version of Stellarium the events involving these bodies aren't right. 

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. This bug has sort of come back in Stellarium 0.16.0, however version 300 of this script works around it.

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I can be emailed at qam1@aol.com