AST-A 107 Lecture 7: astronomy exploration activity #7
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Learning goals: students should be able to use technology to explore the sky: use the stellarium software to display a simulation of the night sky over any location on. Earth at any time: control the display of the simulation to account for daylight and light pollution, find important night sky objects with the stellarium software. Getting started: the stellarium planetarium program is available on the computers in any of the student technology centers (stcs) and iuanyware. You can also download and install the appropriate version for your own computer from the website: http://www. stellarium. org/. (it"s. Stellarium is also available for a small fee from google. Stellarium"s program controls appear when you move the mouse to the lower left corner. User"s guide provides a good walk-through for the preliminaries like controls, features, and. Set the geographic location (home) to bloomington, indiana. The top icon on the left toolbar (the compass-thing) opens the location window.
