Thursday, August 13, 2009

fixed, broke Stu's Stellarium

Stu M had recently added Stellarium to his Acer netbook. He was enjoying the software.

I offered to add the CAO and DDO landscape omniramas. He gave a thumbs up. While his Aspire One has a camera, it does not have Bluetooth. I had to "sneaker net" the data with a USB memory dongle stick thingamajig key drive.

I also offered to enter the CAO location into his locations, pointing out this would give more accurate lunar and planetary positions. I transcribed the latitude, longitude, and elevation from my screen to his.

It all seemed to go well. We saw the landscapes listed and working upon selection. We added the new location to the list and then tried to make this the default location.

Stu reported to me afterwards that none of it was working. He could not see the landscapes. And on starting the software, he noticed it thought he was in Paris.

I cannot fathom why this all stopped working...

I hate computers.

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