Stellarium

Numerous streaks cover night sky

Asked by Tanglefoot

Hi,

I am so impressed with Stellarium when I have used it on other people's computers but for some reason, when running on my computer (Dell B130 notebook), the night sky or day sky with no atmosphere is covered with many streaks of light of varying intensity. At first I thought they were meteors but I turned the meteors up higher and noticed they look completely different. These streaks don't appear to change when time is changing at a normal rate. When I speed up the time, the streaks disappear and re-form across the sky...they almost obscure most of the stars.

Thank you--I'd really like to take the program camping this summer!

          Eric

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Best Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#1

It sound like an issue with your graphics card's driver. Could you please try to update it to the latest version possible? The newest drivers are usually found on the website of the graphics card manufacturer, or, for laptops, the laptop's manufacturer.

Also, if you are running Stellarium 0.10.3, you can try disabling OpenGL shaders support: in Stellarium's configuration file, under "[main]", set "use_glshaders = false". On Windows, Stellarium's configuration file (config.ini) can be accessed through a shortcut in Stellarium's folder in the Start menu.

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Tanglefoot (eric-permut) said : 		#2

Thanks Bogdan Marinov, that solved my question.