Stellarium
A realistic, real-time 3D simulation of the night sky.
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Description
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
Stellarium Web SiteFeatures
- Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset
- Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars
- Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects
- Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way
- Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations
- More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations
- Solar and lunar eclipse simulation
- Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)
- Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)
- Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including:
- artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)
- ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)
- Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)
- telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)
User Ratings
User Reviews
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just try tritank, a tactics strategy shooter coded in c++ and opengl, then u will experience the unexperienced! its yet in development, but try it out and keep updated!
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Found this as a "promotional / recommended" program on my Ubuntu Linux system, so decided to install it there. And was immediately blown away! I then went to the home page and discovered Stellarium is available for Windows as well- so I installed it on my Windows-7 computer too! I've been watching that VERY bright star just after sunset (Jan/2012) ans assumed it was Venus. NO! Stellarium informs me it is Jupiter! (in solar conjunction more or less) THANX, STELLARIUM! Now, I'm next going out to buy a telescope.
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Absolutely awesome program - very impressive!
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Awesome, fun aplication! I love it and it's very interesting!
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Great Application. Can't compare its features with any paid applications. Very helpful to students like me.