Stellarium 0.15.1
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 version 0.15.1:
The Digital Sky Survey (DSS) can be shown (requires online connection).
AstroCalc is now available from the main menu and gives interesting new computational insight.
Stellarium can act as Spout sender (important for multimedia environments; Windows only).
Fixed: wait() and waitFor() in the Scripting Engine no longer inhibits performance of moves.
Fixed: DE430/431 DeltaT may be OK now.
ArchaeoLines also offers two arbitrary declination lines.
Added support of time zones dependent by location.
Added new skyculture: Sardinian.
Added updates and improvements in catalogs.
Added improvements in the GUI.
Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed.
Homepage – http://www.stellarium.org
Size: 147 MB
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