Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL.

It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Stellarium displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for eleven different cultures
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
• realistic Milky Way
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• the planets and their satellites
• 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 control
• telescope control
• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…

Changes in Stellarium 0.10.2 [2009-03-09]:
- Based on Qt 4.5.
- Display constellations lines using nicely distorted arcs.
- Fixed GUI problems when creating a new location.
- Fixed the grid lines wrap around at the discontinuities in cylindrical and Mercator projection.
- Hide the planet computation problems after year 80608.
- Use the Qt raster engine by default. This fixes mac rendering bugs and speeds up greatly the GUI rendering.
- Improved management of intersection of viewports with large FOV and projections with singularities.
- Added Hammer-Aitoff projection allowing full sky overview.
- Fixed various bugs.

Homepage – http://www.stellarium.org

Size: 40.5 MB

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