stellarium-web-engine icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
stellarium-web-engine copied to clipboard

Disable Satellites in Stellarium Web

Open neilparker62 opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

Is it possible to disable satellite view ? There was an online video I saw which showed a second set of menu icions at the lower edge of the screen. I don't see those in the Stellarium web interface ?

neilparker62 avatar Jun 13 '23 10:06 neilparker62

As there are so many satellites now, this feature is really necessary, otherwise we'll soon not be able to see any stars.

Does the rendering of the fast moving satellites consume much CPU?

31SFX4 avatar Aug 01 '23 20:08 31SFX4

Not the rendering, but of course the computation takes a few cycles. And yes, the upcoming tsunamis of tens of thousands of satellites may slow down the program.

gzotti avatar Aug 01 '23 20:08 gzotti

The ability to disabld satelites is indeed necesary. It is awesome as they are implemented, but few mote thousnds (year?) And they will be disturbong more then enjoyable. Thanx a lot for awesome work

judovana avatar Feb 17 '24 13:02 judovana

Yes, satellite constellations are more disturbing than enjoyable. Especially on the real sky.

gzotti avatar Feb 17 '24 14:02 gzotti

Looks like it's been well over a year since this issue was brought up, and no action? It truly sucks to have so many satellites drifting across the field of view. I am surprised there is not a bigger outcry. Is it that complicated to offer users a switch to turn it off? Please?

Bill-J142 avatar Mar 03 '25 13:03 Bill-J142

Yes, please write to Mr. Musk to stop destroying the sky, his activities are undesirable. Wide-field astrophotography becomes impossible without his space junk cutting lines everywhere.

gzotti avatar Mar 03 '25 14:03 gzotti

Yes, please write to Mr. Musk to stop destroying the sky, his activities are undesirable. Wide-field astrophotography becomes impossible without his space junk cutting lines everywhere.

Amen. I am just a casual sky watcher but still appalled at what;s happened to the near-earth environment. Stellarium drives home the reality of it, and that's good, but without a way to switch off, it has become depressing and just reminds me of Mr. Starcreep.
I'm trying out TheSkyLive. It lacks Stellarium's fancier features but at least does not show artificial objects.

Bill-J142 avatar Mar 04 '25 22:03 Bill-J142