Absolutely minimal setup for evolution of Sun-like star in MESA r22.11.1 starting with homogeneous cloud of H/He ending with cooling white dwarf. To run stellar evolution, first compile "star" code ./mk and run from the beginning: ./rn Entire evolution should take ~14000 steps and from 70 minutes (high-end CPU) to several (~5h on 4-core VM) hours. New dirs will be created png/ -- a lot of visualization LOGS/ -- evolution data photos/ -- restart "photos" To create ALL movies from PNG's use provided script (MEncoder required) : ./parallel_movie_encode.sh