Hugo Jenks' site linked above seems to have disappeared but his models are still available in the Internet Archive here I'm sure that there are plenty of people here who use it, and so if there are any questions from new users, then I'll be only too pleased to help out with advice, and hopefully other seasoned users can offer their expertise also! I'm afraid that getting to know how to use Stellarium is a learning process over a longish period of time, not to mention getting to grips with astronomical principles in general. For example if I have my Paint Shop Pro open to deal with screen shot processing and saving, I find I can't use much else, without the risk of Stellarium stalling. The XP version works absolutely fine with hardly any issues, except that because the program is quite processor intensive - particularly when you zoom in to features - I can only use a limited number of other programs at the same time. I've tried Stellarium on Windows 7, both 32 and 64 bit versions, but there are too many issues on my machine. (I have the Adobe 6 full program and this is too old to open many of the new adobe pdf documents coming on stream!) You can open it with Adobe Reader 9 and later. However, the current guide for V 0.15.0-1 is downloadable from: There is a column on the right hand site for a range of help issues under various categories. Perhaps "Megalithic dot co dot uk" itself could provide a download archive for such panoramas, in conjunction with a forum thread - such as this one - for future dialogue and exchange of ideas? To illustrate the potential use for other sites, I also created a panorama for "Lucifer's Rock" Teufelstein, for an on-line colleague, in which I took the opportunity to include some advice on using Stellarium. Hopefully, once people get to look at and try using this set, it might encourage the creation of such sets for other sites too. Of course, I shall be publishing the results of my own research in due course. The overall objective is to establish a local interdisciplinary archaeoastronomy group to take research on the monument further. So the set covers a huge range of information to answer many of those questions, as well as providing a dedicated, and very accurate, horizon profile as aid to archaeoastronomy and more general astronomy learning. While studying on-site, many people stopped to ask what I was up to, which often led to long discussions about general geography, right through to astronomy and archaeoastronomy issues. The purpose of the set is to fulfil a number of outreach objectives as well as my own research needs. Unfortunately I don't yet have a web site to link to, so anyone interested will need to contact me directly and to whom I can give a link to my ftp site. It includes a 3D landscape to illustrate the Circle layout and allows you to zoom in and out of the stones (for this one needs red/cyan anaglyph glasses as for some 3D images I have posted on this site's web page). I have also produced a set of general information and research panoramas for the Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle site, with descriptions and instructions. You will also need the Stellarium application, which is a free (open source) download from: Hugo Jenks writes: I have produced some 3d models of Stonehenge and Woodhenge for the Stellarium astronomy application Landscapes for the Stellarium astronomy application, Stonehenge and Woodhenge The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map : Index > Stones Forum > Landscapes for the Stellarium astronomy application, Stonehenge and Woodhenge Moderated by : Andy B, Klingon, TheCaptain, bat400, davidmorgan, Runemage, SolarMegalith, sem
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