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5.11. OTHER CONFIGURATION FILES
CHAPTER 5. ADVANCED USE
An example entry might look like this:
[ceres]
name = Ceres
parent = Sun
radius = 470
oblateness = 0.0
albedo = 0.113
halo = true
color = 1.0,1.0,1.0
tex_halo = star16x16.png
coord_func = comet_orbit
#orbit_TimeAtPericenter = 2453194.01564059
#orbit_PericenterDistance = 2.54413510097202
orbit_Epoch = 2453800.5
orbit_MeanAnomaly = 129.98342
orbit_SemiMajorAxis = 2.7653949
orbit_Eccentricity = 0.0800102
orbit_ArgOfPericenter = 73.23162
orbit_AscendingNode = 80.40970
orbit_Inclination = 10.58687
lighting = true
sidereal_period = 1680.15
5.11
Other Configuration Files
In addition to the files discussed in the previous sections, Stellarium uses various other data
files. Many of these files may be edited easily to change Stellarium’s behaviour4 . See table
5.11.
4 Not all files in the .../data directory are listed here - only the ones which the advanced user is most likely
to want to modify.
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