# Stellarium as Windows Desktop?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stellarium-as-windows-desktop/423067>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stellarium-as-windows-desktop/423067 "2007-10-17T19:06:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stellarium-as-windows-desktop/423067/1 "2007-10-17T19:06:03Z")

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Anyone know of a way to get [Stellarium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium) to work as my Windows desktop or screensaver? Other than taking a screen shot that is. 🙂

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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stellarium-as-windows-desktop/423067/2 "2007-10-17T19:28:06Z")

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No, but thanks for the heads-up on this cool application! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stellarium-as-windows-desktop/423067/3 "2007-10-17T20:30:10Z")

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Cool isn’t it? Very cool when you up the number of meteors per hour.