Rock Doctor Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Damian/Felix, I'm having exactly the same problem as Pete but in XP. I've searched high and low and can't find the second ssystem.ini file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hi Dave, Its definitely there !!!.. You neeed to cut & paste into the stellarium ssystem.ini files. 1.Using windows explorer locate c:\documents and settings\<your username>\application data\stellarium\data 2. open ssystem.ini with wordpad. Copy script file above and paste into the ssystem.ini file. Each object begins in square brackets, so insert beore a new object starts. 3. Save the edited file. Copy the new file to c:\program files\stellarium\data.. If you have difficulties drop me a pm with your e-mail addr and then send me the ini file and I wll edit. If you have located the folders just put the new ssystem.ini files into each. If you cannot find the folder you may need to ensure you can 'see' all the folders from the root directory. Have xp and w7 here, works in both. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I give up!! Got some instructions from someone on the Stellarium forum, then spent over 2 hours of trial and error tonight and eventually got one of the comets to show in Stellarium after using solar system editor and downloading a file. But now after shutting down Stellarium and starting it again, a search doesn't find it anymore! I then found not two, but three ssystem.ini files and copied the data into all three, but that made no difference at all. Checked the procedure several times but still no joy. Surely it shouldn't be this complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Try it on the netbook in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IanP Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Hi Dave, Its definitely there !!!.. You neeed to cut & paste into the stellarium ssystem.ini files. 1.Using windows explorer locate c:\documents and settings\<your username>\application data\stellarium\data 2. open ssystem.ini with wordpad. Copy script file above and paste into the ssystem.ini file. Each object begins in square brackets, so insert beore a new object starts. 3. Save the edited file. Copy the new file to c:\program files\stellarium\data.. If you have difficulties drop me a pm with your e-mail addr and then send me the ini file and I wll edit. If you have located the folders just put the new ssystem.ini files into each. If you cannot find the folder you may need to ensure you can 'see' all the folders from the root directory. Have xp and w7 here, works in both. Cheers I'm afraid I fail at the first hurdle here: I'm using Windows 7 and Windows Explorer within it.... I cannot find a folder or file called "documents and settings". I'm not exactly a dummy with PCs (my humble opinion) I bought my first PC in 1986. This documents and settings sounds very XP or Win 95 to me. I only have one ssytem.ini file, which I've edited as told which is in Program Files > Stellarium > data Perhaps I've confused wordpad and notepad in editting it? Anyway, my attempt failed so I'm hoping the sourceforge website will have a "for dummies" download ;O) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Hi Ian, W7 has a folder called documents and settings in the root directory, you probably wont be able to access it though. You will note above that the response was to Dave with XP. If you have a look at my content I have put a method for updating via the MPC here :-- http://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/4168-stellarium-updates-for-asteroids-comets/ Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I was just checking and the Panstarrs we need to input is Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kenik Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Hi Damian, I'm having trouble with this. I put the text in ssystem.ini in the data folder but searches don't come up with any other folder with a ssystem.ini file. I tried searching for ISON and PANSTARRS within Stellarium but it says "Simbad lookup: Not found". Any ideas? Cheers, Pete. Your file is in ~/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini and /usr/share/stellarium/data/ssystem.ini ( this need root access) What version do you have? I have problem with blank lines just one! ANd with verison 0.11. After upgrade to 0.12 work simple using /settings/ .. http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/113971-adding-comets-asteroids-and-small-bodies-to-stellarium/ Try upgrade: https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+archive/stellarium-releases ANd then works fine: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Hi Vasek, Welcome to EMS, Pete is ok now, and has version 12. I have had no issues with blank lines in the ssystem.ini files, also you can update via the mpc this way... You can use the configuration utility within Stellarium to update the comet & asteroid files from the Minor Planets Centre. To do this 1. Launch Stellarium. 2. Click on configuration window (F2) 3. Click on Plugins. 4. Select solar system editor. 5. Click on configure. 6. Click Solar system. 7. Click import orbital elements in MPC format. 8. Select Asteroids / Comets. 9. Click on select bookmark 10 Click get orbital elements.. Sorted... Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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