Stellarium simulation

I'm interested lately in Stellarium and the functionalities which it provides especially scripting. I want to make a simulation that shows the celestial sphere with some planets like Venus, Mars, and the Pole-star.

I would make a kind of animation that starts from a departure point (France) and arrives in (Canada), but in this animation, I couldn't figure out how to synchronise between time and position (Supposing that I'm travelling to Canada at a fixed speed like in a vessel).

I've already looked for some examples in the scripts folder and I read the documentation and I found that I can use setObserverLocation() and maybe setDate() but I don't know to synchronise between both of them to make the animation realistic.

• You'd need to find equally spaced points on the great circle between France and Canada, and then set the times based on your speed. Finding these points isn't difficult, but I'm not sure it's actually an astronomy question, and it's probably too simple for gis.SE -- I'll look into it, but consider trying stackoverflow.com – barrycarter Feb 11 '17 at 4:25