Stellarium
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Stellarium | |
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Developed by | Fabien Chéreau |
Latest release | 0.9.1 / 17 January 2008 |
OS | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux |
Genre | 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 cannot 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, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork.
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[edit] Features
Stellarium contains a wide variety of features.
[edit] Sky features
- over 600,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue and the Tycho-2 Catalogue
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations from ten cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- planets of the solar system's and their major moons
[edit] Interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- scripting to record and play your own shows
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own dome
- graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
[edit] Visualization
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes
- spherical panorama projection
[edit] Customisability
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
- available in more than 40 languages since version 0.8.0
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Official website
- User Guide
- Official wiki
- Stellarium at Sourceforge.net
- Freshmeat project page
- SourceForge.net: Project of the Month / May 2006 - Stellarium
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