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You can also change the position of the planet and zoom in on an object. With a simple click you can move your current location to another latitude and longitude on a given date and time in order to attend an astronomical event, such as an eclipse of the Sun or Moon. An event consists of a change of the date and/or time and/or place. You can set up to 5 buttons and assign events. As version 5.0, the playing is managed directly by the console (no need to use VLC).В The вЂњSlideshowвЂќ button allows you to create a sequence of images to be projected on the screen of Stellarium. In this way, videos, pictures, audio tracks or Stellarium scripts are directly callable by simply pressing the corresponding button on the console. You can set up to 6В buttons and assign to them up to four media files (video, audio, images, or Stellarium script files) or up to four media folders. This feature is highly effective for your audience! The вЂњFly overвЂќ button, which allows you to select a planet and then perform an overflight close to it, as if you were on a spaceship that revolves around that planet, deserves a separate section. Button вЂњReverse TimeвЂќ: reverses the timeвЂ™s direction of the four programmable buttons.Button вЂњNowвЂќ: sets the virtual time and date to the system one.You can program up to 4 programmable buttons to assign different speeds of the time. Speed of time: it accelerates or decelerates the passage of time.Emergency: it shows a very bright image on the dome in case of emergency.Timer for the teacher: shows an initial message and starts the timer for the user.Shooting stars : Enables or disables the display of shooting stars.Center object and automatic zoom : centers the selected object and it zooms to it automatically.Home: Takes you back to the initial latitude and longitude resets the settings of the current view.

The animation gives the same illusion of movement of an opto-mechanical planetarium.

North Pole, South Pole and Equator: These three buttons allow you to move the observer location to the North or South Pole or to the Equator of the Earth or any other planets of the Solar System.

Change the observer location: the вЂњFrom hereвЂќ allows you to change the observer location.

Planets: a button for each planet in the solar system, including the one for the Sun,В the Moon and Pluto.

Precession of the equinoxes: for North and South emisphere.

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Find Polaris: allows you to run a script that shows how to find the North Star starting from the pointer stars Merak and Dubhe.

Display date and time for 5 seconds on the dome.

grids (equatorial, azimuth) and meridian, celestial equator, ecliptic lines and the orbits of the planets, galactic grid, precession cicles.

tracks of the planets as they move around the Sun.

Four buttons for the solstices and equinoxes: each button will move the simulation time to one of each events.

Planet, star and constellation label controls (hide/show labels).

lines, borders, images, and names of the constellations.

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These are the most salient features of the product: Stellarium Console Professional

Show the distance from a Solar System Planet on Stellarium.

Get simulation data directly from Stellarium (the console queries Stellarium and gets some data about the simulation).

Manage all the Messier catalogue and set a customizable zoom for each object (you can choose a zoom for each Messier object on a config file).

See the precession of the equinoxes both for the North and South emispheres.

Draw on Stellarium (you can use the mouse to draw lines on Stellarium) вЂ“ your audience will see your figures.

Change your location on Earth by simply clicking on a big world map.

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Use PDF files inside the console (for example, you can use themВ as a guide for your lessons).

Support for Stellarium 0.14.3 and the newest 0.15.0!.

You can move the video inside Stellarium, change the volume, use the fast forward and rewind controls.

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Every video you will play with Windows Media Player, you will play on Stellarium Console too. Stellarium Console does no longer use external programs to play videos. You have only to choose which version to use at startup. Now, the Training and the Professional editionsВ are withinВ the same software.

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The code of the 5.x version has beenВ totally rewritten. New Features of the 5.x version New Features of the 5.x version