Donald
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StellariumHelp! I can't persuade the program to accept an alternative to Paris as a ground location. Any ideas? 
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bwh
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Quite a common problem with stellarium ....... you are not alone.
The location is altered from the Spanner icon (tools) and the Location Tab - which by default shows map of the world.
Now designers assumed everyone has fancy mouse with a Zoom wheel - which will allow you to zoom into the UK and scotland - see glasgow and edinburgh and choose this as default starting location.
Sadly many folks dont have the special mouse and it is therefore harder. You can alter the Latitude and Longitude settings on the location page and save this as HOME.
Dalgety Bay location information:. Latitude: 56.03667, Longitude: -3.35667 ( or 3.35 W )
You can look up rosythe and other locations if required.
hope this helps.
You can also find additional textures (messier/galaxy) pictures which add to the fun.
Great talk - as i really learned more about stellarium.
There is now a 0.10 version but not fully ready for release (final testing) and that will control telescope - so you can plan viewing 
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bwh
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oh and second bug - if you do have wheel mouse, then you can click on Edinburgh but when you move mouse to select "set default" the location changes - i once clicked edinburgh and when i selected default by then my mouse over southafrica and thus i set default to africa
so if you can zoom, zoom so only glasgow and edinburgh visible.
bugs -
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Cosmic
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Great program!
I had looked at this briefly in the past and did not realise it's potential.
I have installed beta 10 version and so far no crashes (fingers crossed)
I will report after extensive testing.
Cosmic
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