Stellarium 1.0 – Free Planetarium

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02-10-22

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Stellarium is a free open-source planetarium for your computer. Visualization renders 3D photo-realistic skies in actual time with OpenGL. It shows a practical sky in 3D. Just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope.

Stellarium displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas, and different things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. There is an ability to add new solar system objects from online resources.

You can add your deep-sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, and scripts. The plugin system provides artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration, and more.

Stellarium is available for Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS, and Android. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Features:

sky

default catalog of over 600,000 stars
further catalogs with more than 177 million stars
default catalog of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
further catalog with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
constellations for 20+ completely different cultures
images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
realistic Milky Way
very realistic atmosphere, sunrise, and sunset
the planets and their satellites

interface

a robust zoom
time control
multilingual interface
the fisheye projection for planetarium domes
spheric mirror projection for your low-cost dome
the all-new graphical interface and in-depth keyboard control
telescope control

visualization

equatorial and azimuthal grids
star twinkling
shooting stars
tails of comets
iridium flares simulation
eclipse simulation
supernovae and novae simulation
3D sceneries
skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

customizability

plugin system including artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration, and more
ability to add new solar system objects from online resources…
add your deep-sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…

Changes in Stellarium 1.0

A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems, sorry.)
Many details around eclipses
Updated Observation List features
New features in AstroCalc tool
HiDPI improvements
Better dithering
Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
New skyculture: Samoan
Updated several skycultures
Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars plugins
Many more bug fixes.

System Requirements:

minimal

Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
The 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3
512 MiB RAM
250 MiB on disk
keyboard

recommended

Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
The 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
1 GiB RAM or more
1.5 GiB on disk
keyboard