Dear Juan, as much as I want to extend the range of Stellarium's validity for historical application, current easily available models simply do not allow this extension. The current (V0.15) precession model spans +/-200.000 years, this would be sufficient. The best numerical data for planetary positions now spans -13000...+17000 only. There may be other models, but we want to make sure that at least these central millennia are sufficiently well simulated. When this is assured, we may investigate other models and extend further.
Kind regards, Georg Am 27.11.2016 01:26, schrieb Juan Sebastian Gomez Jeria: > Hi: > As all you know, archeological findings are showing definitively that > our ancestors gave a relatively great importance to the sky in many > parts of the world. > Stellarium, coupled with other software (Google Earth, etc.) has > proven to be an extraordinary tool for teaching and research. On the > other hand, a recent discovery of Neanderthal structures in the > Bruniquel Cave was dated about 175,000 ka. I would like to ask if one > day Stellarium intends to expand the date range to cover such ancient > dates. I am not an archeologist or a specialist in this field but only > a curious human primate. > Regards, > JUAN > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list > Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
