Stellarium

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Stellarium
Sunset in Paris, 1940-06-14
Developer:	Fabien Chéreau
Latest release:	0.8.2 / 2006-10-06
OS:	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Use:	Educational software
License:	GPL
Website:	www.stellarium.org

Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time. With Stellarium, it's possible to see what one can see with the naked eye, binoculars or a small telescope.

Stellarium is developed by the French programmer Fabien Chéreau, who launched the project in the summer of 2001. Other prominent developers include Robert Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork.

Features include:

• Over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue.
• All the solar system's planets and their major moons.
• Panorama landscapes, fog, atmosphere and realistic sunsets, sunrises and eclipses.
• Standard perspective and wide angle (fish eye) projection modes.

Since version 0.8.0, Stellarium is available in more than 40 languages.

[edit] See also

• NASA World Wind
• Celestia
• KStars
• Geody - the World's search engine - Generate scripts for Stellarium from search results

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Stellarium

• Official website
• User Guide
• SourceForge.net project page
• Freshmeat project page
• SourceForge.net: Project of the Month / May 2006 - Stellarium