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Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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Weather/Meteorology plugin #419

Open alex-w opened 6 years ago

alex-w commented 6 years ago

Original report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1429555

Original request: https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/0026e3e9/

On more than one occasion I found myself needing weather information for the location I'm set at. Instead I'm having to exit out of Stellarium and go to my preferred weather update site, Weather Underground (Wunderground). Surely, it would be simple to create a bit of standard text displaying temperature, clear/cloudy, humidity, pressure, wind speed and direction.

Is there, hidden somewhere, an already existing plug-in just like this for Stellarium? If not, I'd like to get users' opnions, and see if we can find someone to create one.

Coder206 commented 5 years ago

@alex-w I think this would be a wonderful addition to Stellarium.

Coder206 commented 5 years ago

Perhaps, there could be a general implementation for the necessary information pertinent to Stellarium (e.g. cloud cover), then the users are free to choose to pay for weather from a site, use airport data (METAR/TAF) or connect their own meteorology systems.

gzotti commented 5 years ago

I am not sure if this is even really helpful. When I am out already, I actually see cloud cover, no need for a program to tell me whether that single fat cloud covers my target. Or, if needed, a smartphone app can already tell me temperature/cloud cover. Robotic telescope systems have their own sophisticated solutions (allsky camera, rain sensor etc.)

Weather forecast is more important, to know whether an evening will be good. But there are those nice services that provide this already. And nobody has to quit Stellarium to call another program. Task switch to a web browser that has all the information prepared by experts already.

antgiant commented 5 years ago

Just noting that this is related to #415, as solving this is actually the more general case of solving #415.

SpaceDodger commented 2 years ago

This is also must needed features in the Stellarium. Always it frustrates me to quit the app on PC or Mobile to use 3rd party software to check whether is it okay or cloudy to stargaze. I highly recommend this feature and the Deep Space probe plugin must needed in the Stellarium.

alex-w commented 7 months ago

Some useful links: https://github.com/Astrarium/Astrarium/issues/105