stellarium problem

[rikona]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:32:27 -0400
Rolf Grunsky <rgrunsky at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 2018-08-06 11:06 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Sonntag, den 05.08.2018, 18:28 -0700 schrieb rikona:  
> >>   
> >> Could not initialize GLX
> >> Aborted (core dumped)  
> > 
> > this issue is now fixed in the snap "candidate" channel, if you
> > would switch your snap over to edge, either through the details
> > page in ubuntu software like in: https://imgur.com/ytoYP84
> > 
> > ... or from the commandline with:
> > 
> > sudo snap switch --candidate steallarium-plars
> > 
> > then check if it runs and let us know (either here or in the forum
> > thread) then it can be promoted to the stable channel.
> > 
> > thanks a lot for the report and for helping to make it work !
> > 
> > ciao
> > 	oli
> > 
> > 
> >   
> Turn off (disable atmosphere) to see stars, planets and anything else 
> you enable in the daytime sky.
> 
> Apologies: I accidentally replied to sender instead of list.

Thanks for the tip. The pgm tries to simulate what one would see, so
daytime is appropriate. But being able to turn it off would be handy if
you want to know the position of a particular object no matter where it
is.