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    By Fabien Chéreau : stellarium@free.fr
        Info : http://stellarium.free.fr

Stellarium comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  See the gpl.txt 
file for details.

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INTRODUCTION
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Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix 
and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. 
With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, 
binoculars or a small telescope.

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REQUIREMENT
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Windows or linux/POSIX or CYGWIN or MACOSX environement
A 3d openGL acceleration card and a good CPU.

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QUICK START
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Navigation :
Use the direction keys to move the point of view.
Use page up and page down keys to zoom in and out.
Use left mouse button to select an object, right button to select
no object and middle mouse button or SPACE to center on the 
selected object.
Zoomming on nebulaes or planets is very interesting....
Press the H key for more help.

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CONFIGURATION
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Use the configurations files to change the video settings and other 
parameters. These files are located in config/config.txt and 
config/location.txt on Windows/MacOSX and are located in $HOME/.stellarium/
on a unix system.

Speed configuration :
If the FPS (number of Frame Per Second) is too low (<3), you probably have 
no 3D acceleration. Delete the file "config.txt" and rename the file 
"config_no_3D_acceleration.txt" in "config.txt". It should be a bit faster,
but with less options.

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INSTALLATION INSTUCTIONS
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    see the INSTALL file

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THANKS
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	All the SDL team for their remarquable work.
	All the sourceforge team for hosting my project.
	Cédric Delfosse for his precious help on debian port.
	The GEPI team from the Observatoire Astronomique de Paris for 
	the great Hipparcos catalog.
    Brad Schaefer for his sky rendering algorithm.
    Sylvain Ferey for his optimisation of the grids drawing.
    Ben Wyatt (ben@wyatt100.freeserve.co.uk) for the great Glpng library.
    Jean-François Tremblay for his porting on MacOSX.
	Vincent Caron for his parser bugfix and Linux compatibility bugfixes.
	Nick Porcino for his planet function.
    Tangui Morlier for his help on Linux System.
	Bill Gray (projectpluto.com) and
	Mark Huss (mark@mhuss.com) for all the astro libraries.
	Nate Miller (nkmiller@calpoly.edu) for his excellent vector librarie.
    Chris Laurel (claurel@shatters.net) who makes Celestia.
	Yuuki Ninomiya (gm@debian.or.jp) for the parsecfg file.

	And... All the people who sent me mails and bug reports!

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NOTE
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    This program is free, but if you have nothing to do with your 
    money :) , just go there and make something usefull with it :

    https://www.greenpeace.com/forms/gpicontr.html


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LICENSE
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   Copyright (C) 2002 Fabien Chéreau chereau@free.fr

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
   as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
   of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

   See gpl.txt for more information regarding the GNU General Public License.
