StellariumRC

Control Stellarium by Python

Installation

pip install stellariumrc

Requirements

• python3
• requests

Usage

Before starting, please make sure that Stellarium is running and the RemoteControl plugin is enabled.

import StellariumRC

s = StellariumRC.Stellarium() # you can pass the host, port and password (if any) as parameters
print(s.main.getStatus()) # get the current state of Stellarium
s.main.setFocus(target='moon',mode='zoom') # focus on moon and auto zoom-in
print(s.objects.getInfo('moon')) # get info about moon

For more API descriptions, please refer to the source code comments and Stellarium's RemoteControl plugin HTTP API description.