Gaia Sky documentation
These are the official documentation pages of Gaia Sky. Find below the contents table to navigate around.
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Gaia Sky is (partially) described in the paper Gaia Sky: Navigating the Gaia Catalog.
Contents
- Installation and running
- System Directories
- Quick start guide
- User manual
- Dataset manager
- Controls
- User interface
- Camera settings
- Search objects
- Camera info panel
- Object visiblity
- Datasets
- Bookmarks
- Location log
- System information
- Camera paths
- Settings and configuration
- Scripting
- Frames and screenshots
- Stereoscopic (3D) mode
- Planetarium mode
- Panorama mode
- Orthosphere view mode
- Eclipse representation
- Console
- Bounding shapes
- External views
- Connecting Gaia Sky instances
- REST API
- Capturing videos
- SAMP integration
- Procedural planetary surfaces
- System logs
- Advanced topics
- The configuration file
- Proxy configuration
- Performance
- Graphics performance
- Internal reference system
- Data format
- STIL data loader
- Star catalog formats
- Particle catalog formats
- Archetypes
- Components
- Base
- Body
- GraphNode
- Coordinates
- Orientation
- Celestial
- Magnitude
- ProperMotion
- SolidAngle
- Shape
- Trajectory
- ModelScaffolding
- Model
- Volume
- Atmosphere
- Cloud
- RenderFlags
- MotorEngine
- RefSysTransform
- AffineTransformations
- Fade
- DatasetDescription
- Label
- RenderType
- BillboardSet
- Title
- Axis
- LocationMark
- Constel
- Boundaries
- ParticleSet
- StarSet
- ParticleExtra
- Mesh
- Focus
- Raymarching
- Highlight
- Star rendering
- Defining an extrasolar system
- Cubemaps
- Virtual Textures
- Mesh warping
- Gaia Sky VR
- Additional resources
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What is the base-data package?
- Q: Why do you have two different download pages?
- Q: Why so many Gaia-DR catalogs?
- Q: Gaia Sky crashes at start-up, what to do?
- Q: I’m running out of memory, what to do?
- Q: I can’t see the elevation data on Earth or other planets!
- Q: What is the internal reference system used in Gaia Sky?
- Q: Can I contribute?
- Q: I like Gaia Sky so much, can I donate to contribute to the project?
- API reference
- Changelog
- About