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Stellarium
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Stellarium is an Open Source planetarium with multilingual interface.

Main 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 ten 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
  • scripting to record and play your own shows
  • fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • spheric mirror projection for your own dome
  • graphical interface, extensive keyboard control, telescope control

Visualisation

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

Customisability

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



Author:Stellarium Project
Required:Windows, Mac, *NIX
Size:+/-38.7 m
Added:19-Mar-2008
Rating:4.24 (62 votes)
Downloads:3658


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