Stellarium

finding moon takes to the ground

Asked by Shirish Agarwal

trying to find moon, mars, jupiter etc. takes the view to the ground (even though it's nightime.) I used CTRL+F to search for the object and entered the english name. What could I be doing wrong ?

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

Which language you set for Stellarium GUI?

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#2

I didn't set any language, thought it used the default 'English' . Where and how do you set it ?

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#3

Wait, troubles in the ground, not in search?

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#4

Used F2 to see the configuration window and saw that the language is set to English in Main where there are 'Main, Navigation, Tools, Scripts, Plugin' tabs .

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#5

Alexander,
No trouble in the ground (landscape). The trouble is, whenever I click Search and enter the term 'Moon' or 'Mars' or 'Jupiter' instead of taking me in the sky somewhere, it takes me to some place on ground. It either means these objects are not available in the sky or dunno what.

I'm using Indapur, India as the location and time as 23:24 which is the system time at my end.

This is in stellarium 0.11.3

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#6

Mars, Jupiter and Moon are under horizon for your location and time.

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#7

Ah, ok that explains it. Shouldn't there be some sort of statement or something stating that or something ?

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Best Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#8

No. Search tool just select object. You can turn off landscape.

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#9

thanx, that just solved my problem. I didn't know that one could do that.

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) said : 		#10

Another thing though, is there a way to turn off landscape permanently ? Because each time I have to manually turn it off .