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Stellarium 0.14.0

Stellarium 0.14.0






Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.


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 20+ 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
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
visualisation
equatorial and azimuthal grids
star twinkling
shooting stars
eclipse simulation
supernovae simulation
skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customizability
plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...


system requirements
minimal
Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; OS X 10.7.4 and above
3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.1
512 MiB RAM
250 MiB on disk
recommended
Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; OS X 10.8.5 and above
3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
1 GiB RAM or more
1.5 GiB on disk


Changes in Stellarium 0.14.0:
 * Stellarium 0.14.0 brings a big leap forward in astronomical accuracy for historical applications:
 – Precession now follows the IAU2006 model in the long-time version from Vondrák et al. 2011.
 – Nutation is applied (IAU2000B solution). Given that nobody has observed it without telescope and the model does not give limits of applicability, we limit its application to 1500..2500
 – Application of DeltaT has been simplified and made a bit more intuitive.
 * We now dare to add another coordinate system: Ecliptic coordinates of date.
 * We can therefore now show that planetary positions given by the commonly used solution VSOP87 is applicable to -4000..+8000 only, and its use outside this range will give somewhat artificial results. There is more to follow in future versions.
 * The other big addition is a greatly improved collection of DSO data with lots of possibilities in a new GUI tab to select for object type and/or catalog. In total, 15 catalogs are now built-in!
 * Also the Meteor Shower, Satellites, Telescope Control and 3D Sceneries plugins have been improved.
 * Landscapes can have switchable labels, so you can e.g. indicate mountain peaks.
 * In total 83 bugs and wishlist items were fixed or at least decided.

Homepage – http://www.stellarium.org

Size: 158 MB





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