Brilliant program - I'd like to see a FLAT featureless landscape included.

You can use Zero Horizon landscape - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/files/head:/landscapes/zero/

See I am so busy I don't have time for simple things that take too much time.

It's nice that you have sent me a link to one of them fucking awful webpages that has everything except the actual download for that file - just never ending guessing games instead of just "Download" the zip file (whateva).

The point I was raising is that in using celestial mapping software, I do not see the need to have actual landscapes - cosmetically, they are nice, but having trees and buildings in the way, along with mountains, valleys, and all the other clutter is like trying to use a dirty microsocpe, instead of having a clear view, you just have shit in the way.

And this annoys me.

Sure it's not wrong to include lovely landscapes, but the option to exclude the flat earth, uncluttered, featureless land scape is what is really needed - as a default inclusion, instead of just sending me off on a wild goose chase to another idiot launchpad page.

This is actually a better proposition, in terms of "getting a file" and the links - well there is no zero there, but the high altitude station on a mountain top is good enough.......

http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes

Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland

Zero Horizon landscape is one of default landscapes. Plus on the your link you can find 2 flat landscapes already - http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes#Special If you very busy to download it and use... well... I have bad news for you.

This is what I really need - this is brilliant.

www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/simple.zip

Settings:

Show Atmosphere - off.

Show azimuthal grid, horizon, cardinal points.

Landscape - show ground and fog - off.

Use associated planet and position and make it the default landscape.

Is there a way to list a configuration as a text file etc., as I have got the perfect set up and this ought to be the default view, and if people want to have half the side of a mountain / building etc., obscuring their view, then they can switch those after installing the program - and I'd like to upload the settings, and then people can go, "Oooo how amazingly amazing."

Are you kidding me? Are you very busy to change settings and press button "Save settings" (or edit config.ini file through text editor)?

I'm sorry, but why we should change default settings for hundred thousands users because you are lazy to apply minimal amount of effort to change settings planetarium for your environment?

Apparently Mr San missed the point of using this program over printed-paper maps and cardboard planispheres. Sorry for him. Certainly he wants one language only, one set of constellation lines only (art? who needs art?), and sure, beware of too much nice graphics. DSO textures? Nah, show me crosses...

Funny thing is, Stellarium CAN show such a simplified view of the eighties (well, not quite - the screen is always better ..), but the handful of people preferring this will surely find their settings without us changing anything.

More dumb cunts on the internet....

"Oh why should we (go and) change (the) default settings for hundred thousands users because you are lazy to apply minimal amount of effort to change settings in planetarium for your environment?"

Fucking what?

Take more drugs, drink more coffee, get less sleep and get your sleep deprived psychosis really happening.

Why? Because you deserve it.