Stellarium (planetarium software)

Category: Image/Graphic, Other

Product Description:

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Product Features:

Sky

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars.
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars.
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.
• constellations for twelve different cultures.
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue).
• realistic Milky Way.
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
• the planets and their satellites.

Interface

• a powerful zoom.
• time control
• multilingual interface
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes.
• spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome.
• all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard.
• telescope control.

Visualization

• equatorial and azimuthal grids.
• star twinkling.
• shooting stars.
• eclipse simulation.
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection.

Customisability

• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts.

Product Info:
Stellarium
version 0.10.2
Size: 40738 kb

Platform:
Linux (source)
Mac OS X
Windows

Download:
Linux (source)

Mac OS X

Windows

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